Section 186-C:10-a - Retention of Individualized Education ProgramsI. Upon a student's graduation from high school, his or her parents may request the local education agency in writing to have the student's records and final individualized education program destroyed at that time or request that the records be retained until the student's twenty-sixth birthday. The parents may, at any time prior to the student's twenty-sixth birthday, request, in writing, that the records be retained until the student's thirtieth birthday.II. Absent any request by a student's parents at the time of graduation, the local education agency shall destroy a student's records and final individualized education program within a reasonable time after the student's twenty-sixth birthday, provided that all such records be destroyed by the student's thirtieth birthday.III. The department of education shall remove all student records from the state special education information system on the same schedule as school districts.Amended by 2024, 348:1, eff. 10/1/2024.Amended by 2024, 268:1, eff. 9/24/2024.Added by 2018 , 76: 1, eff. 7/24/2018. 2018, 76 : 1 , eff. July 24, 2018.