added paragraph (j) to the General Education Provisions Act. This paragraph allows the U.S. Attorney General or Assistant Attorney General to collect and retain educational records relevant to an authorized investigation or prosecution of an offense that is defined as a Federal crime of terrorism which are in the possession of an educational agency or institution. The Attorney General or Assistant Attorney General must "certify that there are specific and articulable facts giving reason to believe that the education records are likely to contain information [that a Federal crime of terrorism may be being committed]." An education institution that produces education records in response to such a request is given legal immunity from any liability that rises from such a production of records. Disclosure of information from NCES surveys The National Education Statistics Act of 1994 was amended to allow the U.S. Attorney General or Assistant Attorney General to submit a written application to a court of competent jurisdiction for an ex parte order to collect reports, records, and information from the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) relating to investigations and prosecutions of a Federal crime of terrorism or an act of domestic or international terrorism. However, the National Education Statistics Act of 1994 was repealed by H.R.3801 (Pub. L. 103–382), otherwise known as an Act "[t]o provide for improvement of Federal education research, statistics, evaluation, information, and dissemination, and for other purposes". See also Warrant canary References Title V