Board receives quarterly law-enforcement incident report; two incidents met reporting threshold
Get AI-powered insights, summaries, and transcripts
Subscribe
Summary
Under a recently passed state law, the board reviewed the quarter’s report of incidents that required outside law-enforcement contact and parental notification. District staff said two incidents met the reporting threshold: a physical altercation at South Haven and a non-viable gun threat at Lexington High School.
The Henderson County Board of Education received its quarterly law-enforcement incident report as required under a new state law. District staff said two incidents this quarter reached the reporting threshold that requires notification to parents and outside law enforcement.
Presenting the item, Mr. Beecham said the law—adopted by the most recent general assembly and approved by the board in July—requires the district to report incidents where an outside law-enforcement agency was contacted and parents had to be informed within 48 hours. He said the district had two incidents this first quarter and that his protocol is to notify the board before messaging parents.
Mr. Beecham described one incident at South Haven involving a physical altercation with an eighth grader and another at Lexington High School that involved a suspected gun threat, which “turned out to not neither 1 of were viable in terms of harm to anyone.” He praised principals and SROs for handling the incidents and for timely parent messaging. The presenter also noted that some campus incidents are handled by SROs and do not meet the legal reporting threshold; those were not counted in this report.
The board acknowledged receipt of the quarterly report; no further action was taken in the meeting record.