Georgia Code Title 20. Education § 20-14-29

(a) When private colleges and universities in this state provide the Office of Student Achievement with confidential student data or records concerning students enrolled in such private colleges and universities, such private colleges and universities shall not be held liable in any court in this state for any breach of confidentiality, disclosure, use, retention, or destruction of such information if such breach, disclosure, use, retention, or destruction resulted from actions of the Office of Student Achievement or its staff and not from the transmission of the information by the private college or university before such information reached the Office of Student Achievement.

(b) This Code section shall apply to any student data or records that are confidential under any law of this state or any federal law, including, but not limited to, the federal Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act, 20 U.S.C. Section 1232g.