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Committee introduces RS32018 to clarify background checks and shield school emergency plans from automatic public disclosure
Summary
Rep. Chris Mathias introduced RS32018 to clarify background-check language, require schools to maintain emergency operation plans and to exempt those plans and certain training materials from automatic public-record disclosure. The committee voted to introduce the RS for a full hearing.
Rep. Chris Mathias, D-District 19, told the Idaho House Committee on Education on Jan. 23 that RS32018 consolidates and clarifies school safety provisions in state code, strengthens background-check language and seeks to exempt school emergency operation plans and some training materials from automatic public disclosure.
“State law currently requires schools to report every single incident of bullying to the state and it sits in a spreadsheet, collects dust and doesn't really do much,”…
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