State Public University
The University of Alabama Open Records
Submit one reasonably specific request per record set through UA's official portal. Use Open UA for published expenditure data before filing and route student records through the Registrar instead.
Official portal and policy located; operational audit pendingOfficial mandatory open-record portal and 2024 response framework located
Submit one reasonably specific request per record set through UA's official portal. Use Open UA for published expenditure data before filing and route student records through the Registrar instead.
Contact and filing details
- Records custodian or office
- The University of Alabama / Office of Strategic Communications open-records custodian
- Phone
- University main: (205) 348-6010
- Submission methods
- Required official online portal; university-specific department procedure for protected or specialized records.
- Mailing address
- The University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, AL 35487
- Physical address
- Tuscaloosa campus
- Fee information
- UA may charge a reasonable fee; it may waive ordinary requests, while requests requiring more than eight hours are designated time-intensive.
Public notes
UA says it will acknowledge requests within 10 business days and provides a separate 15-business-day notice framework for time-intensive requests. FERPA, library-use, security and other protected records may be withheld or redacted.