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Policy Review Committee recommends new restraint and seclusion policy; board members press for clarity, training and alternatives
Summary
The Policy Review Committee presented a revised policy (5-54) and regulation limiting use of physical restraint and seclusion to narrow circumstances. Board members asked for clearer definitions, training, data, and alternatives used by divisions that have removed seclusion.
On Dec. 11 the school board’s Policy Review Committee recommended replacing existing regulation language with Policy 5‑54 and an accompanying regulation that narrowly defines when physical restraint and seclusion may be used.
Cammy Linetti, school board attorney, said the proposed policy allows physical restraint or seclusion only when school division personnel reasonably judge that other interventions would be ineffective and one or more specific conditions exist: to prevent imminent serious physical harm to self or…
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