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Committee adopts eight updated Livingston Parish school policies tied to new state laws
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Summary
A Livingston Parish School Board policy committee approved eight policy updates addressing meeting broadcasts, personnel privacy, pronoun inquiries, hiring reviews, curriculum limits, special education transitions and school health requirements based on recent state acts and a cited state statute.
Superintendent Blue Shaffer told the Livingston Parish School Board policy committee that he was presenting eight policy updates tied to recent Louisiana laws and that the committee should refer them for adoption.
Shaffer said the policies respond to multiple state acts, including changes requiring school boards in larger districts to broadcast public meetings and statutory language about superintendent performance evaluations. He told the committee that where a superintendent’s contract predates a policy, the contract takes precedence.
The policies Shaffer described include: an update labeled BCBB to require broadcasting and taping of public school board meetings as a result of Act 539; revisions to personnel-records policy GAK to make employees’ personal wireless numbers and personal email addresses confidential under Act 495; a new policy (referred to as GAMK) addressing inquiries into employees’ or students’ pronouns when those pronouns differ from legal names; revisions to recruitment policy GBC to add student services positions to the list of roles requiring criminal-history review under Act 423; a curriculum-related policy (IBDA) implementing restrictions tied to Act 681 on instruction or discussion of sexual orientation or gender identity; an update to special-education policy IDDF to require written information about transfer of rights when a student reaches the age of majority, per Act 689 and Louisiana Revised Statute 17:54; and changes to student-health policy JGC to add nurse training and a sickle-cell disease training component tied to Act 161.
On IDDF, Shaffer said the district will wait for guidance from the Louisiana Department of Education (LDOE) about the form and timing for providing transfer-of-rights information to parents; he said the form must be provided during the student’s later teen years (the policy discussion referenced ages 14–17). On superintendent evaluations, Shaffer said the policy language will reference "Louisiana Revised Statute 17:54" to reflect the statute’s specifics about performance evaluations but noted that existing contract terms take precedence if they conflict with newly adopted policy language.
After the presentation, Jeff Cox moved to adopt the policies as presented and Mister Lane seconded. The committee approved the motion by voice vote; the transcript records “all in favor, say yes” and “motion carries.” No roll-call tally by individual vote is recorded in the transcript.
Shaffer also said the district’s special-education staff will follow up with the state department to determine required forms and procedures, and that the district nurse is assembling sickle-cell training for school nurses.
The committee’s action forwards the updated policies for implementation subject to the district’s normal administrative process and any further guidance from LDOE.
