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Senate education committee advances bill requiring audio recorders in school locker rooms after parentstestimony of assaults
Summary
Following testimony from two mothers and a school superintendent, the Education Committee passed a bill requiring audio recording devices in school locker rooms, with limits on access and retention and an implementation timeline to allow districts to use school-safety grants.
State lawmakers passed legislation on voice vote that requires public schools to install audio recording devices in locker rooms and to limit who may access recordings and how long recordings are retained.
Representative Keith Brooks introduced House Bill 19 66 and invited two parents whose sons said they were assaulted in Quitman Public Schools to describe the incidents. Stephanie White and Angie Edwards said their sons endured repeated sexualized assaults and harassment in an unsupervised locker room; three students later pleaded guilty to assault and related charges. White and Edwards said locker-room recordings would have provided evidence they lacked and could deter or speed investigations.
The bill requires schools that install audio devices to post notice that recording is taking place, limit access to recordings to a small set of officials (the bill and committee discussion narrowly tailors who may access…
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