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Pawnee City school board adopts clearer restriction on registered *** offenders at school events
Summary
The Pawnee City Public Schools board unanimously adopted multiple policy updates including policy 3028, which clarifies that registered *** offenders generally are not permitted on school property or at school‑sponsored events, with limited exceptions and an exceptions process, the superintendent said.
The Pawnee City Public Schools Board of Education on Monday unanimously adopted a package of policy updates, including a significant change to policy 3028 that tightens access rules for registered *** offenders.
Superintendent Mister Evans told the board the updated policy "proposes a change...that the board with this policy does not allow *** offenders on school grounds or school sponsored activities or any property for the purpose of attending student activities, athletic events, concerts, graduations, etcetera." He said the district consulted an attorney and the revised language is intended to replace a previously gray area with clearer limits.
Evans and other board members discussed limited carve‑outs: the superintendent said registered, "*** offenders would be able to attend" specified functions such as board meetings and certain administrative proceedings (for example, special education IEP meetings), but that those instances would require prior communication and arrangements. "They would have to make those arrangements," Evans said, adding the board could hear requests for individual exceptions on a case‑by‑case basis.
Board members asked about fairness and operational impacts; one said the change hardens the standard but provides a path for exception requests where warranted. After brief discussion the board moved to adopt the policy updates and the motion carried unanimously.
The policy package also included administrative updates to several other numbered policies (listed to the board in the packet). The board did not adopt changes that would automatically bar attendance at board meetings or critical educational meetings where legal rights are implicated without prior procedure, Evans said. The board did not set an immediate effective date in the discussion recorded.
The board’s formal action was recorded as "motion carried unanimously." The board did not detail in the recorded discussion how it will publicize the new policy to impacted families beyond existing procedures for communicating policy changes.
