CDT Blogger: Did ESPN/PSU break major confidentiality laws?

While there's not much ado about it--yet--a community blogger on the Centre Daily Times site brought up possible legal ramifications stemming from Penn State releasing blatantly-labeled confidential documents to the ESPN investigators. This isn't just some shmoe running his mouth off at ESPN for tarnishing Joe Paterno's and Penn State's squeaky clean past just for the sake of ratings. He actually brings up some good research:

"IX. Record

Judicial Affairs will only disclose student discipline record information to third parties in accordance with federal law (FERPA) and the University policy on managing Student Discipline Records (http://www.sa.psu.edu/ja).

The Senior Director may also release information concerning the status of a discipline case to persons involved in the case and/or appropriate University officials with legitimate educational interests in such information."

So who's going to get in trouble for this one? Is it just a few disgruntled PSU employees or professors who think their department should get more than the bell-cow football program? How far up the Old Main steps does this go, and just who knew ahead of time that these supposed "confidential" documents were going to be released, with the known use being a hit-job story on Penn State football? Too many questions around this one, Graham Cracker, and not enough answers...

On a side note, TINNOMJ has a great reaction to the OTL feature. I highly recommend reading it.