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Livingston Parish panel approves policy updates, including required cameras in some special education classrooms
Summary
The Livingston Parish School Board Curriculum Policy Committee voted unanimously to approve a set of policy updates driven by recent legislation, including a mandate for cameras in certain special education classrooms and new hands‑free signage for carpool zones.
The Livingston Parish School Board Curriculum Policy Committee voted unanimously to approve a set of policy revisions that include a new legal requirement to install cameras in certain special education classrooms, changes to discipline and corporal‑punishment language, clarified seclusion and restraint procedures, districtwide hands‑free signage for carpool zones and additions to equal‑opportunity language.
Assistant Superintendent Tracy McRae told the committee the state law has shifted the camera program from a parent‑requested option to a legal requirement for classrooms that serve students with significant disabilities or in classrooms where special‑education students are present 50 percent or more of the day. "The law changed ... now it requires ... to have it," McRae said, summarizing the statutory change.
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