How health privacy laws are hurting college students and their families

Rachael Shaw-Rosenbaum , a first-year student at Yale , committed suicide in 2021 .

Frida Ghitis: Lawsuits by parents over their children’s suicides are not uncommon.

She says FERPA prevents schools from releasing medical information to parents.

Ghitis asks: Are there ways around this?.

If only our legal and educational systems would recognize this. Naomi Schaefer Riley is a senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute , a Deseret News contributor and the author of “ No Way to Treat a Child: How the Foster Care System, Family Courts , and Racial Activists Are Wrecking Young Lives,” among other books..