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State to add emergency‑safety‑intervention fields and new infraction codes after Legislature’s bills; aim to reduce 'other' incident tallies
Summary
USBE staff described upcoming changes to incident reporting driven by recent legislation and local workgroups: new ESIs fields required by law, more infraction codes to disaggregate 'other' counts, and validation changes to increase reporting of subjects (victims) in bullying incidents.
Utah State Board of Education incident data staff said the agency will add required fields and new validation logic to UTREx after reviewing local workgroup feedback and two 2025 bills that affect reporting.
Willie, who leads incident data work, said the state will add at least one new field for “reason for alternate placement,” multiple new infraction codes intended to disaggregate incidents previously coded as “other,” and six new data fields required by Senate Bill 170 related to emergency safety interventions (ESIs). Those ESI fields include incident outcomes, duration in minutes (with guidance that duration should not exceed 30 minutes), whether alternative interventions were used, basic…
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