{"620241":{"#nid":"620241","#data":{"type":"external_news","title":"21 States to DeVos: Stop Blocking our Efforts to Crack Down on Student-loan Companies","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/spp.gatech.edu\/people\/person\/peter-swire\u0022\u003EPeter Swire\u003C\/a\u003E, the Nancy J. and Lawrence P. Huang Professor of Law and Ethics in the Georgia Institute of Technology\u0026#39;s School of Public Policy, was recently quoted in an\u0026nbsp;article entitled \u0026ldquo;21 States to DeVos: Stop Blocking our Efforts to Crack Down on Student-loan Companies\u0026rdquo; for\u0026nbsp;\u003Cem\u003EMarketWatch.\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EHere\u0026#39;s an excerpt:\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cblockquote\u003E\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe top law enforcement officials in 21 states are accusing Betsy DeVos\u0026rsquo;s Department of Education of blocking them from accessing information they say they need to hold student-loan companies accountable for allegedly harming borrowers.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EAttorneys general in New Jersey, Washington, Colorado and 18 other states, wrote to DeVos this week, asking her reverse the limitations the Department has placed on the disclosure of student-loan information to state law enforcement agencies. In the past, state AGs probing student-loan companies have been able to access records related to the federal student-loan program held by those companies \u0026mdash; which are contractors of the Department of Education \u0026mdash; in the course of probes or litigation.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\u003C\/blockquote\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.marketwatch.com\/story\/21-states-to-devos-stop-blocking-our-efforts-to-crack-down-on-student-loan-companies-2019-04-05\u0022\u003ERead the full story here.\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/spp.gatech.edu\u0022\u003EThe School of Public Policy\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;is a unit of the\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/iac.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003EIvan Allen College of Liberal Arts.\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"34559","created_gmt":"2019-04-09 18:29:16","changed_gmt":"2019-04-09 18:29:16","author":"pdemerritt3","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","publication":"oit_feature","field_article_url":"","publication_url":"https:\/\/www.marketwatch.com\/story\/21-states-to-devos-stop-blocking-our-efforts-to-crack-down-on-student-loan-companies-2019-04-05","dateline":{"date":"2019-04-09T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2019-04-09T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"605487":{"id":"605487","type":"image","title":"Peter Swire","body":null,"created":"1524601455","gmt_created":"2018-04-24 20:24:15","changed":"1524601455","gmt_changed":"2018-04-24 20:24:15","alt":"","file":{"fid":"230860","name":"swire_peter_profile.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/swire_peter_profile.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/swire_peter_profile.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":36945,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/swire_peter_profile.jpg?itok=Ed6C-Cyb"}}},"media_ids":["605487"],"groups":[{"id":"1281","name":"Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts"}],"categories":[{"id":"151","name":"Policy, Social Sciences, and Liberal Arts"}],"keywords":[{"id":"72451","name":"Peter Swire"},{"id":"167078","name":"School of Public Policy"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}