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Bossier Parish board adopts multiple policy revisions to comply with recent state acts, including seclusion, cameras and drug policy updates
Summary
The board approved a package of policy amendments to align district procedures with recent state acts: clarifying seclusion vs. sensory rooms, requiring cameras in self-contained special-education classrooms, adding 'physical' to restraint language, expanding nondiscrimination to military status, widening protection from retaliation to 'school employees', and explicitly banning employee medical marijuana use.
The Bossier Parish School Board approved a set of policy amendments intended to align district procedures with recent state legislative changes, including Act 4 79, Act 100 and Act 4 39 as referenced during the meeting.
A policy presenter explained the revisions distinguishing sensory rooms (used for de-escalation and emotional regulation) from seclusion rooms (used when a student poses an imminent risk of harm). The revisions would also establish a school health designee to conduct…
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