Wisconsin Statutes & Annotations
Chapter 885 - Witnesses and oral testimony.
885.205 - Privileged communications.

885.205 Privileged communications. No dean of men, dean of women or dean of students at any institution of higher education in this state, or any school psychologist at any school in this state, shall be allowed to disclose communications made to such dean or psychologist or advice given by such dean or psychologist in the course of counseling a student, or in the course of investigating the conduct of a student enrolled at such university or school, except:
(1) This prohibition may be waived by the student.
(2) This prohibition does not include communications which such dean needs to divulge for the dean's own protection, or the protection of those with whom the dean deals, or which were made to the dean for the express purpose of being communicated to another, or of being made public.
(3) This prohibition does not extend to a criminal case when such dean has been regularly subpoenaed to testify.
History: 1993 a. 486.

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