C. “Police liaison officer” is a peace officer who, pursuant to an
agreement between the school district and a political subdi-
vision or law enforcement agency, is assigned to a school
building for all or a portion of the school day to provide law
enforcement assistance and support to the building adminis-
tration and to promote school safety, security, and positive
relationships with students
D. “Crisis team” means a group of persons, which may include
teachers and non-teaching school personnel, selected by the
building administrator in each school building who have received
crisis intervention training and are responsible for becoming ac-
tively involved with resolving crises. The building administrator or
designee shall serve as the leader of the crisis team.
E. The phrase “remove the student from school grounds” is the
act of securing the person of a student with an IEP and es-
corting that student from the school building or school activ-
ity at which the student with an IEP is located.
F. “Emergency” means a situation where immediate
intervention is needed to protect a child or other individual
from physical injury.
G. All other terms and phrases used in this policy shall be de-
fined in accordance with applicable state and federal law or
ordinary and customary usage.
II. REMOVAL OF STUDENTS WITH IEPs FROM SCHOOL GROUNDS
A. Removal By Crisis Team
If the behavior of a student with an IEP escalates to the
point where the student’s behavior endangers or may en-
danger the health, safety, or property of the student, other
students, staff members, or school property, the school
building’s crisis team may be summoned. The crisis team
may attempt to de-escalate the student’s behavior by
means including, but not limited to, those described in the
student’s IEP and/or behavior intervention plan. When such
measures fail, or when the crisis team determines that the
student’s behavior continues to endanger or may endanger
the health, safety, or property of the student, other stu-
dents, staff members, or school property, the crisis team
may remove the student from school grounds.
If the student’s behavior cannot be safely managed, school
personnel may immediately request assistance from the
police liaison officer or a peace officer.
B. Removal By Police Liaison Officer or Peace Officer
If a student with an IEP engages in conduct which endan-
gers or may endanger the health, safety, or property of the
student, other students, staff members, or school property,
the school building’s crisis team, building administrator, or
the building administrator’s designee, may request that the
police liaison officer or a peace officer remove the student
from school grounds.
If a student with an IEP is restrained or removed from a
classroom, school building, or school grounds by a peace of-
ficer at the request of a school administrator or school staff
person during the school day twice in a 30-day period, the
student’s IEP team must meet to determine if the student’s
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IEP is adequate or if additional evaluation is needed.
Whether or not a student with an IEP engages in conduct
which endangers or may endanger the health, safety, or prop-
erty of the student, other students, staff members, or school
property, school district personnel may report a crime com-
mitted by a student with an IEP to appropriate authorities. If
the school district reports a crime committed by a student
with an IEP, school personnel shall transmit copies of the
special education and disciplinary records of the student for
consideration by appropriate authorities to whom it reports
the crime, to the extent that the transmission is permitted by
the Family Education Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA), the
Minnesota Government Data Practices Act, and school dis-
trict’s policy, Protection and Privacy of Pupil Records.
The fact that a student with an IEP is covered by special
education law does not prevent state law enforcement and
judicial authorities from exercising their responsibilities with
regard to the application of federal and state law to crimes
committed by a student with an IEP.
C. Reasonable Force Permitted
In removing a student with an IEP from school grounds, a
building administrator, other crisis team members, or the
police liaison officer or other agents of the school district,
whether or not members of a crisis team, may use reason-
able force when it is necessary under the circumstances to
correct or restrain a student or prevent bodily harm or
death to another.
In removing a student with an IEP from school grounds,
school district personnel are further prohibited from
engaging in the following conduct:
1. Corporal punishment prohibited by Minn. Stat. §
121A.58;
2. Requiring a child to assume and maintain a specified
physical position, activity, or posture that induces
physical pain;
3. Totally or partially restricting a child’s senses as
punishment;
4. Denying or restricting a child’s access to equipment and
devices such as walkers, wheel chairs, hearing aids, and
communication boards that facilitate the child’s func-
tioning except when temporarily removing the equip-
ment or device is needed to prevent injury to the child or
others or serious damage to the equipment or device, in
which case the equipment or device shall be returned to
the child as soon as possible;
5. Interacting with a child in a manner that constitutes
sexual abuse, neglect, or physical abuse under Minn.
Stat. § 626.556;
6. Physical holding (as defined in Minn. Stat. § 125A.0941)
that restricts or impairs a child’s ability to breathe,
restricts or impairs a child’s ability to communicate
distress, places pressure or weight on a child’s head,
throat, neck, chest, lungs, sternum, diaphragm, back,
or abdomen, or results in straddling a child’s torso;
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