Perrysburg schools create Student Bill of Rights, new reporting channels and draft anti‑grooming policy after wave of anonymous reports

Perrysburg School District leaders told the Board of Education on Feb. 18 that they have created a Student Bill of Rights, opened new anonymous reporting channels and drafted a staff conduct/anti‑grooming policy after receiving 22 reports through a new email and voicemail tipline.

The Student Bill of Rights and reporting changes are meant to make it clearer how students and community members can report safety concerns, administrators said. The district also will run semesterly reviews of reports with school resource officers and the police chief and is developing a centralized administrative file system to preserve historic reports.

The move follows community concern that past allegations were mishandled or not tracked. Justin Fultz, director of student services and well‑being, said the district has assigned unique IDs to incoming reports, records the source and the nature of each complaint, and tracks actions, status and outcomes.…