2019 Alabama Special Education Records To Be Destroyed

The Alabama State Department of Education has scheduled certain special education records to be destroyed for February 10, 2025.

Records to be destroyed pertain to special education Written State Complaints, mediations, and due process hearing requests filed between January 1, 2019, and December 31, 2019.

Therefore, if you are the parent of a child (or a student aged 19 or older, or a former student aged 19 or older) involved in a special education Written State Complaint, mediation, or due process hearing request, with records maintained at the ALSDE during this timeframe; you may request the Written State Complaint, mediation, or due process hearing request records pertaining to your child (or yourself), by mailing or faxing a signed written authorization to release the records to: Ms. Bernice Rush-Harrison, Alabama State Department of Education Special Education Services, Post Office Box 302101, Montgomery, AL 36130-2101; or email: brush-harrison@alsde.edu.

The written authorization to release the records must be received by 4 p.m., February 7, 2025.

Your letter should include the student’s name, current mailing address, and telephone number.

Unless Special Education Services receives a signed, written request for the 2019 Written State Complaint, mediation, and/or due process hearing request records, these records will be destroyed on February 10, 2025.

If you have questions, please contact Ms. Rush-Harrison at (334) 694-4782.