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Bill would define 'boundary violations' in schools; OSBA urges standards and quicker investigations
Summary
House Bill 3,563 would add a statutory definition and reporting requirements for 'boundary violations' (behavior often described as grooming). The Oregon School Boards Association supports the definition but raised questions about whether investigations should remain in-district or be handled by state investigators.
Salem — Witnesses before the House Education Committee on March 31 supported House Bill 3,563, a measure to define and require reporting of "boundary violations" in schools — conduct often described as grooming — while seeking clarity about who conducts investigations.
Michelle Moon, chief of staff to Rep. Kevin Mannix (sponsor), said the bill is intended as a prevention tool. "If we can define that behavior and have the right tools to deal with it, then we're actually preventing the behavior to go to the next level of misconduct," she told the committee.
Adrienne Anderson, representing the Oregon School Boards Association (OSBA), said the bill would add a statutory definition and reporting requirement for boundary violations to existing abuse and misconduct statutes. She described the current statutory process…
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