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District reviews restraint-and-seclusion report; officials stress rarity and legal safeguards
Summary
Director of Special Programs Julie Smith reviewed the 2024–25 restraint-and-seclusion report, noting incidents are rare, aggregated to protect student identity, subject to Functional Behavior Analysis and team debriefs, and that the School Resource Officer's actions are not included in district counts.
Julie Smith, the district’s Director of Special Programs, presented the 2024–25 restraint-and-seclusion report required by Oregon law (ORS 326.051 and OAR 581-022-2267). Smith said such interventions "happen in very rare circumstances where there is an imminent risk of serious bodily injury to self or others," and described how the district uses multi-disciplinary teams and Functional Behavior Analysis reviews when students have multiple incidents.
Smith emphasized that incidents are presented in aggregated form to protect student identity and that any emergency restraint conducted by untrained staff is followed by team debriefing and training; School Resource Officer or Pendleton Police Department actions are excluded from the district's report because those officers are not district staff.
