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Board keeps conduct language tied to case law, moves to add nicotine-product language
Summary
Trustees left optional language extending conduct rules to travel and bus stops in place pending legal guidance and agreed to add nicotine-product wording to the inhalant/vaping prohibition in student conduct policies.
Board members reviewed JFC (student conduct) language that includes travel to and from school and bus-stop conduct, noting the provision was drafted in response to case law in other jurisdictions that allowed district jurisdiction in certain circumstances. Some trustees worried the language could be overbroad in rural contexts (for example, when students legally possess firearms for hunting). Staff offered to request additional legal guidance but recommended retaining the sample language for now.
On prohibited substances, trustees asked staff to include nicotine pouches and similar inhalant-delivery products explicitly in the policy. "I would include nicotine pouches," a board member said, explaining that the items are easy for students to conceal and not always captured by 'tobacco' language. The board agreed to coordinate updates across tobacco-related policies and return revised language.
