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Board reviews student-searches administrative rule update emphasizing student-centered practice
Summary
Director Paul Southerton presented a first read of updates to JFG AR (Student Searches) intended to align with current practice and add student-centered language, including offering students a choice about who is present during a search; staff will revise language and return for a second read.
Director Paul Southerton presented proposed updates to Administrative Rule JFG (Student Searches), describing the revisions as aligning policy with current practice and framing procedures in a more student-centered way. He highlighted suggested changes that would explicitly include language about asking students who they are comfortable having present during a search.
Board members provided feedback and suggested language refinements; Southerton indicated he would make the edits and return the rule for a second read at the next meeting. No adoption occurred at this first-read stage.
The update is procedural and intended to clarify practice rather than to create new search authorities; the board treated it as administrative refinement that will return for further review.
