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Board approves revised JIH policy clarifying school vs. law-enforcement roles in interviews, searches and arrests
Summary
The Elizabeth School District Board of Education adopted a revised JIH policy clarifying when school staff conduct interviews and searches and when incidents must be transferred to law enforcement.
The Elizabeth School District Board of Education approved a revised policy governing student interviews, interrogations, searches and arrests (policy JIH) at its Oct. 28 business meeting after an extended working-session discussion.
The working-session discussion brought together Tyler, the district's director of safety, and Chief Engel of the Elizabeth Police Department to clarify the policy's two-part structure: school responsibilities (interviews and reasonable-suspicion, noncustodial searches and discipline) and law-enforcement involvement (probable-cause custodial interrogation…
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