Today, there so many legal issues concerning students in public schools and school entities.
And certainly, while there is no way to eliminate all these issues from occurring in a school, there are ways to handle them quickly and definitively:
- Student discipline
- Student residency disputes
- Child custody disputes
- Access to and release of student records
- Emancipation
- Free-speech issues
- Religious issues
- Dress code issues
- Drug and Alcohol testing of students
- Security issues, including searches of lockers, vehicles or personal belongings
Each of these areas, if not handled correctly, can come back to haunt a district and its employees later. Through swift coordination of the school’s response to regular in-service training and our Pool Counsel service, we have worked to greatly minimize the possible adverse consequences of missteps.
To learn more about our work in this area, contact us today.