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Board tightens emergency safety interventions rule, requires comprehensive evidence-based training
Summary
The board approved R277-608 (Emergency Safety Interventions and prohibition of corporal punishment) with amendments clarifying prohibited uses (coercion, retaliation, humiliation, staff convenience) and adding a requirement that identified staff receive comprehensive evidence-based ESI training in addition to foundational behavioral support.
On Sept. 11 the Utah State Board of Education approved R277-608, the emergency safety interventions (ESI) and prohibition of corporal punishment rule, adopting committee edits and several amendments from the floor.
Board members considered multiple amendments intended to clarify situations in which physical restraint or seclusion may not be used: the board adopted an amendment specifying seclusion/restraint must not be used "as a behavioral intervention, as a disciplinary practice, for coercion, retaliation, or humiliation, due to inadequate staffing, or for staff member's convenience." The amendment passed unanimously (member Hall absent for roll call). Members debated whether the phrasing…
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