Can a Nebraska Public School Out an LGBTQ+ Student to Their Parents or the Public?

Most people assume FERPA keeps a student's gender identity or sexual orientation private from everyone without consent. That is half right. Federal and Nebraska law do restrict what a public school can tell the press, the community, or another family — but neither is a shield against the student's own parents, and Nebraska's records statute has three wrinkles that national explainers miss, including an age-of-majority gap between eighteen and nineteen. Here is what Neb. Rev. Stat. § 79-2,104 actually says, where parental access begins and ends, why a Nebraska privacy lawsuit is harder than it sounds, and what to do first if a disclosure has already happened.