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School committee delays vote on revised student-questioning policy after debate on exigent circumstances
Summary
The committee discussed a proposed revision to Policy JIH (student interrogations and searches) that would require parental presence for non-exigent questioning and references a local MOU with police; the motion to adopt the draft failed and the item was left for further review.
The Sharon School Committee discussed proposed revisions to Policy JIH (student questioning and searches) on April 16 but did not adopt the draft. The policy would have tightened rules about law-enforcement interviews of students and would have explicitly referenced the district''s memorandum of understanding (MOU) with the local police department.
Dan (Policy Subcommittee member) summarized the key changes under consideration: the revised draft would make parental presence the default for non-exigent law-enforcement questioning of students, would reference the local MOU with the…
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