Generally speaking, Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA) allows the University to disclose education records or personally identifiable information from education records without the student’s permission if the disclosure meets the FERPA 34 CFR § 99.31 criteria to release student education records.
References to parents in the FERPA law typically refer to students who have not yet enrolled in a higher education institution or turned 18. FERPA rights belong to the students at the UW.