N.Y. Education Law § 6448: Privacy in legal challenges

§ 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.