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Mount Olive board hears student-safety SSDS report as parents press for transparency on HIB cases
Summary
The Mount Olive Township School District board received its twice-yearly SSDS student-safety report covering Jan.–Jun. 2025 and outlined prevention programs and HIB investigation procedures; in public comment, residents pressed the district on how uninvestigated reports affect HIB counts and whether FERPA is being used to deny budget and staff-schedule records.
At a recent meeting of the Mount Olive Township School District Board of Education, Jackie Bello, director of student support services and programming, delivered the district's semiannual SSDS (student safety data system) report covering January through June 2025 and outlined prevention programs and the HIB (harassment, intimidation and bullying) investigation and appeals process. "So the reporting period I will deliver on tonight is from January 2025 through June 2025," Bello said as she began the presentation.
The report distinguished between the SSDS incident total and category-specific counts for violence, vandalism, weapons and substance incidents, and described how HIB allegations are recorded as "alleged" and later as "confirmed" if investigations find they meet the statutory definition. Bello explained the system’s guidance on what qualifies as a fight or other serious incident and emphasized district work on both response and prevention: character-education programs, "kindness ambassadors" in elementary schools, teen mental…
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