Federal agencies are required to disclose any information requested under the FOIA unless it falls under one of nine exemptions which protect interests such as personal privacy, national security, and law enforcement.
Exempt: Information that invades individual privacy; trade secrets; public policy development memos; and investigative materials. Visit, Maryland Sample FOIA Request, to view a sample FOIA request for the state.
Ing to FERPA, personally identifiable information in an education record may not be released without prior written consent from the student. Some examples of information that MAY NOT BE RELEASED without prior written consent of the student include: university ID number. Social Security number.
Furthermore, schools may disclose, without consent, directory information, which FERPA defines as a student's name, address, telephone number, date and place of birth, honors and awards, and dates of attendance.
Obtaining informed consent is a legal and ethical necessity before treating a patient. It derives from the principle of autonomy; one of the 4 pillars of medical ethics: (Autonomy, Beneficence, Non-maleficence and Equality - as described by Beauchamp and Childress1).
It is a general legal and ethical principle that valid consent must be obtained before starting treatment or physical investigation, or providing personal care, for a person. This principle reflects the right of patients to determine what happens to their own bodies, and is a fundamental part of good practice.
Risks of harm and potential benefits the patient would consider significant for any reason. These will be revealed during your discussion with the patient about what matters to them. Any risk of serious harm, however unlikely it is to occur. Expected harms, including common side effects and what to do if they occur.
If an adult has the capacity to make a voluntary and informed decision to consent to or refuse a particular treatment, their decision must be respected. This is still the case even if refusing treatment would result in their death, or the death of their unborn child.
In the first meaning, an informed consent is an autonomous authorization by individual patients or subjects of a medical intervention or of involvement in research by individual patients or subjects.
Nadine, a type 1 diabetic of small stature experienced severe complications due to shoulder dystocia during the delivery of her son. Her sons head was delivered using rotational forceps but his shoulders became stuck for a period of twelve minutes.