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SECTION 6448
Privacy in legal challenges
Education (EDN) CHAPTER 16, TITLE 7, ARTICLE 129-B
§ 6448. Privacy in legal challenges. Pursuant to subdivision (i) of
rule three thousand sixteen of the civil practice law and rules, in any
proceeding brought against an institution which seeks to vacate or
modify a finding that a student was responsible for violating an
institution's rules regarding a violation covered by this article, the
name and identifying biographical information of any student shall be
presumptively confidential and shall not be included in the pleadings
and other papers from such proceeding absent a waiver or cause shown as
determined by the court. Such witnesses shall be identified only as
numbered witnesses. If such a name or identifying biographical
information appears in a pleading or paper filed in such a proceeding,
the court, absent such a waiver or cause shown, shall direct the clerk
of the court to redact such name and identifying biographical
information and so advise the parties.