Nevada School Discipline Laws & Regulations: Referrals to Law Enforcement

Nevada School Discipline Laws & Regulations: Referrals to Law Enforcement

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Subcategory: Referrals to Law Enforcement
State: Nevada

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LAWS

NRS 62E.030. Court to provide certain information to school district concerning certain offenses.

1. If a court determines that a child who is currently enrolled in school unlawfully caused or attempted to cause serious bodily injury to another person, the court shall provide the information specified in subsection 2 to the school district in which the child is currently enrolled.

2. The information required to be provided pursuant to subsection 1 must include:

(a) The name of the child;

(b) A description of any injury sustained by the other person;

(d) A description of any threats made by the child against the other person before, during or after the incident in which the child injured or attempted to injure the person.

3. If a court determines that a child who is currently enrolled in school unlawfully engaged in discrimination based on race, bullying or cyber-bullying, the court shall provide the information specified in subsection 4 to the school district in which the child is currently enrolled.

4. The information required to be provided pursuant to subsection 3 must include:

(a) The name of the child;

(b) The name of the person who was the subject of the discrimination based on race, bullying or cyber-bullying; and

(c) A description of any discrimination based on race, bullying or cyber-bullying committed by the child against the other person.

5. As used in this section:

(a) "Bullying" has the meaning ascribed to it in NRS 388.122.

(b) "Cyber-bullying" has the meaning ascribed to it in NRS 388.123.

NRS 388.880. Immunity from civil liability for reporting threat of violence against school official, school employee or pupil; exceptions.

1. Except as otherwise provided in subsection 2, if any person who knows or has reasonable cause to believe that another person has made a threat of violence against a school official, school employee or pupil reports in good faith that threat of violence to a school official, teacher, school police officer, local law enforcement agency or potential victim of the violence that is threatened, the person who makes the report is immune from civil liability for any act or omission relating to that report. Such a person is not immune from civil liability for any other act or omission committed by the person as a part of, in connection with or as a principal, accessory or conspirator to the violence, regardless of the nature of the other act or omission.

2. The provisions of this section do not apply to a person who:

(a) Is acting in his or her professional or occupational capacity and is required to make a report pursuant to NRS 200.5093, 392.303 or 432B.220.

(b) Is required to make a report concerning the commission of a violent or sexual offense against a child pursuant to NRS 202.882.

3. As used in this section:

(a) "Reasonable cause to believe" means, in light of all the surrounding facts and circumstances which are known, a reasonable person would believe, under those facts and circumstances, that an act, transaction, event, situation or condition exists, is occurring or has occurred.

(b) "School employee" means a licensed or unlicensed person who is employed by:

(1) A board of trustees of a school district pursuant to NRS 391.100 or 391.281; or

(2) The governing body of a charter school.

(1) A member of the board of trustees of a school district.

(2) A member of the governing body of a charter school.

(3) An administrator employed by the board of trustees of a school district or the governing body of a charter school.

(d) "Teacher" means a person employed by the:

(1) Board of trustees of a school district to provide instruction or other educational services to pupils enrolled in public schools of the school district.

(2) Governing body of a charter school to provide instruction or other educational services to pupils enrolled in the charter school.

NRS 388.1352. Establishment of policy by governing body for employees to report violations to law enforcement.

A governing body, in conjunction with the school police officers of the school district, if any, and the local law enforcement agencies that have jurisdiction over the school district or school, shall establish a policy for the procedures which must be followed by an employee of the school district or school when reporting a violation of NRS 388.135 to a school police officer or local law enforcement agency.

NRS 388.1454. Legislative findings and declarations concerning SafeVoice Program.

The Legislature hereby finds and declares that a SafeVoice Program is necessary because it is the intent of the Legislature to enable the people of this State to easily and anonymously provide to appropriate state or local public safety agencies and to school administrators information about dangerous, violent or unlawful activities, or the threat of such activities, conducted on school property, at an activity sponsored by a public school, on a school bus of a public school or by a pupil enrolled at a public school.

NRS 391.281. Fingerprinting and investigation into the background of applicant for employment or appointment as school police officer and certain nonlicensed employees; use of certain information; disqualification of certain applicants, employees and volunteers; acceptance of gifts, grants and donations; immunity from liability; employment of school police officers; contract for police services; training in prevention of suicide.

5. The board of trustees of a school district may employ or appoint persons to serve as school police officers. If the board of trustees of a school district employs or appoints persons to serve as school police officers, the board of trustees shall employ a law enforcement officer to serve as the chief of school police who is supervised by the superintendent of schools of the school district. The chief of school police shall supervise each person appointed or employed by the board of trustees as a school police officer, including any school police officer that provides services to a charter school pursuant to a contract entered into with the board of trustees pursuant to NRS 388A.384. In addition, persons who provide police services pursuant to subsection 6 or 7 shall be deemed school police officers.

6. The board of trustees of a school district in a county that has a metropolitan police department created pursuant to chapter 280 of NRS may contract with the metropolitan police department for the provision and supervision of police services in the public schools within the jurisdiction of the metropolitan police department and on property therein that is owned by the school district and on property therein that is owned or occupied by a charter school if the board of trustees has entered into a contract with the charter school for the provision of school police officers pursuant to NRS 388A.384. If a contract is entered into pursuant to this subsection, the contract must make provision for the transfer of each school police officer employed by the board of trustees to the metropolitan police department. If the board of trustees of a school district contracts with a metropolitan police department pursuant to this subsection, the board of trustees shall, if applicable, cooperate with appropriate local law enforcement agencies within the school district for the provision and supervision of police services in the public schools within the school district, including, without limitation, any charter school with which the school district has entered into a contract for the provision of school police officers pursuant to NRS 388A.384, and on property owned by the school district and, if applicable, the property owned or occupied by the charter school, but outside the jurisdiction of the metropolitan police department.

7. The board of trustees of a school district in a county that does not have a metropolitan police department created pursuant to chapter 280 of NRS may contract with the sheriff of that county for the provision of police services in the public schools within the school district, including, without limitation, in any charter school with which the board of trustees has entered into a contract for the provision of school police officers pursuant to NRS 388A.384, and on property therein that is owned by the school district and, if applicable, the property owned or occupied by the charter school.

8. The board of trustees of a school district shall ensure that each school police officer receives training in the prevention of suicide before beginning his or her service as a school police officer.

NRS 391.282. Jurisdiction of school police officers; law enforcement agency to respond to request for assistance by school district which does not have school police according to agency protocol.

1. The jurisdiction of each school police officer of a school district extends to all school property, buildings and facilities within the school district and, if the board of trustees has entered into a contract with a charter school for the provision of school police officers pursuant to NRS 388A.384, all property, buildings and facilities in which the charter school is located, for the purpose of:

(a) Protecting school district personnel, pupils, or real or personal property; or

(b) Cooperating with local law enforcement agencies in matters relating to personnel, pupils or real or personal property of the school district.

2. In addition to the jurisdiction set forth in subsection 1, a school police officer of a school district has jurisdiction:

(a) Beyond the school property, buildings and facilities:

(1) When in hot pursuit of a person believed to have committed a crime; or

(2) While investigating matters that originated within the jurisdiction of the school police officer relating to personnel, pupils or real or personal property of the school district;

(b) At activities or events sponsored by the school district that are in a location other than the school property, buildings or facilities within the school district; and

(c) On the streets that are adjacent to the school property, buildings and facilities within the school district to enforce violations of traffic laws and ordinances.

3. A law enforcement agency that is contacted for assistance by a public school or private school which does not have school police shall respond according to the protocol of the law enforcement agency established for responding to calls for assistance from the general public.

NRS 391.283. Policy for procedures to be followed by peace officers in arresting pupil on school grounds during school hours.

1. The board of trustees of each school district, in conjunction with the school police officers of the school district, if any, and the local law enforcement agencies that have jurisdiction over the school district, shall establish a policy for the procedures which must be followed by a peace officer in arresting a pupil on school grounds during school hours. The policy must include the circumstances under which the chief administrative officer of a school must be notified of the arrest of a pupil.

2. Each law enforcement agency that has jurisdiction over any part of a school district shall adopt the policy which is established pursuant to subsection 1.

NRS 392.850. Provision of information to certain employees regarding unlawful conduct of pupil; immunity from liability under certain circumstances; confidentiality of information.

1. The board of trustees of a county school district, or its designee, shall inform each employee of the district, including teachers, other licensed employees, drivers of school buses, instructional aides and office managers, who may have consistent contact with a pupil if that pupil has, within the preceding 3 years, unlawfully caused or attempted to cause serious bodily injury to any person. The district shall provide this information based upon any written records that the district maintains or which it receives from a law enforcement agency or a court. The district need not initiate a request for such information from any source.

2. A school district and the members of its board of trustees are not liable for failure strictly to comply with this section if a good faith effort to comply is made.

3. Except as otherwise provided in NRS 239.0115, any information received by an employee pursuant to this section is confidential and must not be further disseminated by the employee.

NRS 392.4633. Corporal punishment prohibited.

1. Corporal punishment must not be administered upon a pupil in any public school.

2. Subsection 1 does not prohibit any person from defending himself or herself if attacked by a pupil.

3. As used in this section, "corporal punishment" means the intentional infliction of physical pain upon or the physical restraint of a pupil for disciplinary purposes. The term does not include the use of reasonable and necessary force:

(a) To quell a disturbance that threatens physical injury to any person or the destruction of property;

(b) To obtain possession of a weapon or other dangerous object within a pupil's control;

(d) To escort a disruptive pupil who refuses to go voluntarily with the proper authorities.

NRS 392.4638. Board of trustees authorized to adopt policy for pupils to report unlawful activity being conducted on school property, activity sponsored by public school or on school bus.

1. The board of trustees of each school district may adopt a policy that allows a pupil enrolled in a public school within the school district to report, anonymously if the pupil chooses, any unlawful activity which is being conducted on school property, at an activity sponsored by a public school or on a school bus. The policy may include, without limitation:

(a) The types of unlawful activities which a pupil may report; and

(b) The manner in which a pupil may report the unlawful activities.

2. The board of trustees of a school district may work in consultation with a local law enforcement agency or other governmental entity, corporation, business, organization or other entity to assist the board of trustees in the implementation of a policy adopted pursuant to subsection 1.

3. If the board of trustees of a school district adopts a policy pursuant to subsection 1, each public school within the school district shall post prominently in various locations at the school the policy adopted pursuant to subsection 1, which must clearly denote the phone number and any other methods by which a report may be made. If a public school maintains an Internet website for the school, the policy must also be posted on the school's website.

4. If the board of trustees of a school district adopts a policy pursuant to subsection 1, the board of trustees shall post the policy on the Internet website maintained by the school district.

REGULATIONS

No relevant regulations found.