Enforcement Rules of the Special Education Act Article 17

The data pertaining to special education students in the individualized education plans, individualized support plans, career transition plans, and individual guidance plans for gifted/talented students that universities, colleges. and schools draw up in accordance with Article 31, Article 35, Article 36, and Article 42 of the Act shall be stored in designated, appropriate places and managed by appropriate personnel, in written or electronic storage media. The data shall be stored in the form of written records and/or electronic storage media and a student’s data shall be kept for ten years after the student graduates from or leaves the university, college, or school.When preschools draw up plans pertaining to special education students in accordance with Article 31 and Article 36 of the Act, they shall comply with the provisions of the preceding paragraph.If a university, college, school or preschool is for some reason unable to continue to store and manage the data pertaining to special education students referred to in the preceding two paragraphs in a proper way, that data shall be handed over to a recipient body that shall store and manage the data in a proper way in accordance with regulations.Universities, colleges, schools and preschools shall destroy data pertaining to special education students that has already been stored beyond the required number of years, on a regular basis. The destruction method shall ensure that there is no risk of disclosure of data pertaining to special education students and preschoolers, and, in principle, the destruction should be undertaken once a year.