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2018 California Code
Education Code - EDC
TITLE 2 - ELEMENTARY AND SECONDARY EDUCATION
DIVISION 4 - INSTRUCTION AND SERVICES
PART 27 - PUPILS
CHAPTER 6 - Pupil Rights and Responsibilities
ARTICLE 5.2 - Restraint and Seclusion
Section 49005.2.
Universal Citation: CA Educ Code § 49005.2 (2018)
49005.2.
A pupil has the right to be free from the use of seclusion and behavioral restraints of any form imposed as a means of coercion, discipline, convenience, or retaliation by staff. This right includes, but is not limited to, the right to be free from the use of a drug administered to the pupil in order to control the pupil’s behavior or to restrict the pupil’s freedom of movement, if that drug is not a standard treatment for the pupil’s medical or psychiatric condition.
(Added by Stats. 2018, Ch. 998, Sec. 1. (AB 2657) Effective January 1, 2019.)
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