FERPA and Title IX are now AI compliance categories.
Tokto records every model decision, every faculty or staff prompt, every research-team AI use, and every vendor AI integration that touches student data, IRB-protected research, or institutional records, ready for OCR, the DOE, the IRB, the funding agency, and the AG.
The DOE opens a FERPA enforcement after a third-party AI tool integrated into the SIS leaks student records. The provost asks for AI history per department. The CIO has dashboards. The GC has notice. No one has a record.
What you get with Tokto
- Every model decision tied to a user, a department, a course, a study, a data classification, and a consent capture.
- A complete record for OCR, the DOE, the IRB, the funding agency, the AG, and accreditation reviewers on the same evidence.
- Policy at the model: no FERPA-protected record outside scope, no IRB-protected research past protocol, no export-controlled work into a non-US model.
- Defensibility under FERPA, HIPAA (academic medical), Title IX, IRB protocols, and federal funding terms at once.
How it works
Tokto governs the AI surface of the institution. Faculty co-pilots, administrative assistants, research models, vendor AI inside the LMS or SIS — all become records at the moment they fire. The record carries the user, the department, the data classification, the consent, and the policy that applied. The GC controls one trail across academic affairs, research, athletics, and admin.
When OCR opens a FERPA inquiry, when the DOE asks how AI tools handled student data, when the funding agency asks how restricted research was governed, the record is the same record. The GC answers in days, not federal investigations.
What goes wrong without it
- A FERPA inquiry on a third-party AI integration. The institution cannot produce a per-department record.
- A Title IX challenge on an AI-assisted screening pipeline. The institution cannot prove what the model saw.
- A federal funding clawback on a restricted-research data leak through an AI tool. The investigator's grant is suspended.
- An IRB stop on an AI-assisted protocol with no audit trail. The study is reset.
Educause research finds 94% of higher education employees now use AI tools for work, but only 54% are aware of their institution's AI policy and 56% use AI tools the institution did not provide. Self-hosted education AI platform misconfigurations have exposed tens of thousands of student records per breach; over 1.8 million U.S. students have had education data exposed since 2020. Student PII flowing into unsanctioned tools sits squarely inside FERPA and COPPA exposure with no institutional record of consent or use limit.
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