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Representative proposes transfer of full school disciplinary records; committee adopts record-transfer amendment and pauses juvenile-records portion
Summary
The House Education Committee considered HB 344, which would expand the set of student disciplinary records that transfer between schools and proposed limited access to juvenile records under future database changes; the committee adopted an amendment to require transfer of full disciplinary records and deferred the juvenile-records portion for further work.
The House Education Committee heard House Bill 344 on Monday, a bill by Representative Barrault that seeks to expand the set of student disciplinary records that transfer with a student and to provide a narrow pathway for school administrators to access juvenile justice records if juvenile data becomes available in the criminal repository.
The bill grew out of a constituent report of a violent incident; Barrault described meeting with St. Tammany Parish school officials and prosecutors and said school leaders told her they sometimes lack prior disciplinary information when a student transfers districts. "It would really be helpful to us if we knew…
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