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House panel debates how S.227 defines 'nonpublic' school areas, warrants and student‑records protections
Summary
Committee members pressed the attorney general’s office on how S.227 would treat nonpublic areas of schools, who decides that designation, how warrants should authorize entry, and whether the bill’s student-records language should prohibit practices with the purpose or effect of excluding students.
Committee members and Assistant Attorney General Julio Thompson spent significant time addressing how S.227 would define and apply rules for nonpublic areas, student records and law‑enforcement access.
Thompson said a school or district that controls property can make a case‑by‑case determination that an area is nonpublic — for example, a temporary medical tent or a curtained changing area during a production — so long as the designation is rationally…
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