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Parent says campus restraint left son traumatized and urges autism-focused training for campus police
Summary
A Socorro ISD parent told the board her son, a student with disabilities, was physically restrained on Aug. 29 in a manner she called traumatic and potentially life-threatening; she urged district leaders to require trauma-informed and disability-sensitive crisis training for campus police and staff.
During the meeting’s public-comment period, parent Diana Serrano described a restraint of her son by campus police on Aug. 29 that she said was traumatic and may have been life-threatening. Serrano said she was present after the restraint and believes that without her presence her son might not have survived.
Serrano said neither the…
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