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Trustees halt vote on probation-services language after privacy concerns
Summary
Trustees pulled the county probation-services contract from the consent agenda after multiple board members raised concerns about wording that seemed to allow probation officers to obtain releases of information from students and about teachers initiating referrals; staff will request clarifying revisions from the county provider.
Discussion over a county probation-services contract consumed a large portion of the board’s consent-agenda debate after trustees raised privacy and procedure concerns.
Several trustees said the contract language—under which teachers and administrators could make referrals and a probation officer could obtain a signed release of information from a "referred student" during an initial interview—risked placing undue responsibility on classroom teachers and might allow minors to sign legal releases…
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