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Board reviews expanded student-search policy; administrators add documentation and training requirements
Summary
The board reviewed a new-format policy and administrative regulation on student searches, questioning and arrests that adds a documentation requirement and clarifies when reasonable belief permits searches.
The Talbot County Board of Education on Oct. 15 received a first-reader presentation of a substantially rewritten policy and administrative regulation (AR 10.18) titled “Student searches, questioning and arrests,” which adds documentation requirements and clarifies procedures for administrators.
Why it matters: The draft replaces an older, narrower policy on interrogations and searches with a more comprehensive AR intended to give administrators a single reference for searches, arrests on school property and related documentation. The update also adds a training and recordkeeping…
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