Throughout the 70's, 80's and 90's an avalanche of legislative initiatives dramatically reshaped the campus legal landscape. The 1998 "Jeanne Clery Disclosure of Campus Security Policy and Campus Crime Statistics Act", 20 U.S.C. Section 1092 / First enacted in 1990 as Title II of Public Law 101-542/ 1998; cited as Section 485(f) of the Higher Education Act or 20, U.S.C. 1092(f), the HR 3097 of 2003, the HIPAA Act of 1996, the CA/SB1386 Act of 2002, the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002, the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act of 2002, the ITLI - ISO 17799 on internal communications controls, the FEMA Directives 426, 427, 428, 429 and 248, the FDA 1007 21 CFR Part 11 on Patient Privacy, the ISO 13485 on Secure Archival and the BASEL II Accords on banking secure transactions, and the NFPA 72/06, have all placed tremendous demands on academic organizations.

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