TNGA Rep. Casada to lock up Special Ed students in school dungeons

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TNGA Rep. Rep. Glen Casada, R-Franklin (Williamson County)

*HB 2538 by *Casada. (SB 2517 by *Johnson.)
http://www.capitol.tn.gov/Bills/106/Bill/HB2538.pdf
Education - As introduced, allows the use of locked isolation rooms and physical restraint in certain situations involving students receiving special education and removes provision permitting certain school resource officers upon witnessing an offense by a student receiving special education to take the student into custody. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 10, Part 13.

Bill Summary
Under the Special Education Isolation and Restraint Modernization and Positive Behavioral Supports Act, a student receiving special education services may be restrained or isolated only if the restraint or isolation is provided for in the student's individual education program (IEP) or in an emergency situation, if necessary to assure the physical safety of the student or others nearby.

This bill specifies that restraint of a student is authorized when necessary to protect faculty, staff, or other pupils from harm.

Present law authorizes a school resource officer (SRO) to, upon witnessing an offense, take a special education student into custody if the SRO is a deputy sheriff or police officer fully compensated by a law enforcement agency and not a school official. Otherwise, present law authorizes school personnel to report a suspected crime by calling a law enforcement official or, after conducting a manifestation determination that results in a determination that the behavior that resulted in the act requiring disciplinary action was not caused by the student's disability, to file a juvenile petition against the student.

This bill removes the provision of present law that authorizes an SRO to take a special education student into custody upon witnessing an offense.

Present law prohibits the use of a locked door, or the use of any physical structure that substantially accomplishes the intent of locking a student in a room or structure, to isolate or seclude a student.

Cop caught on tape beating special education student Marshawn Pitts over untucked shirt
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/2009/10/07/2009-10-07_cop_beat_special_education_student_.html
BY ADAM SOMMERS
DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITER
Wednesday, October 7th 2009, 1:26 PM

A suburban Chicago police officer was caught on a security camera beating a high school special education student, apparently because his shirt was untucked.



Marshawn Pitts, 15, was walking down his school hallway when he says a Dolton, Ill., police officer went from berating him for his untucked shirt to slamming him to the ground and beating him, CBS/Channel 2 reports

"The officer was in his face because he didn’t have his shirt tucked in," Pitts' attorney told CBS' Davis Savini.

"That’s the officer put in that school to protect these kids, and instead of doing that, this officer is literally assaulting this kid."

Neither school nor Dolton officials responded to CBS about the story.

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Caught on Tape: Cop Beats Special Needs Student On Camera
http://www.specialneedsnow.com/?p=208

Photo: Security cameras captured the beating of a 15-year-old Special Education student by a police officer. cbs2 chicago)

DOLTON, Ill. (CBS2) A 15-year-old special education student was walking down a hallway at school when he says a police officer grabbed him and threw him to the ground. The teenager says he was beaten and nearly suffocated and much of it was caught on tape.

The teen told his story to CBS 2 Chicago reporter Dave Savini.

Security cameras captured the beating of Marshawn Pitts, who says the officer started shouting and swearing at him because his shirt wasn’t tucked in.

“I was tucking my shirt in,” Pitts said.

But it’s what happened next that had Marshawn Pitts worried for his life. Pitts says the officer came at him suddenly.

“It was just like boom,” Pitts said.

He says he was blindsided by the officer, thrown into lockers and struck repeatedly.

In the video, you can see that he gets slammed to the ground and his face smashed into the floor. His nose was broken. Pitts says he was bleeding.

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[Ten Bears]

1. What does Marshawn Pitts have to do with your post?

Unless you wanted to sensationalize the event in hopes of drawing people to your point-of-view with a visceral depiction of police brutality. Is it your position that police in Tennessee are chomping at the bit to assault school children? I am curious as to why this issue draws your attention. What might your background be? From experience, people who feel the need to sensationalize their points feel that their points are weak.