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2020 Utah Code
Title 53G - Public Education System -- Local Administration
Chapter 9 - Health and Welfare
Part 6 - Bullying and Hazing
Section 604 - Parental notification of certain incidents and threats required.
Universal Citation: UT Code § 53G-9-604 (2020)
Effective 5/14/2019
53G-9-604. Parental notification of certain incidents and threats required.
Amended by Chapter 293, 2019 General Session
53G-9-604. Parental notification of certain incidents and threats required.
- (1) A school shall:
- (a) notify a parent if the parent's student threatens to commit suicide; or
- (b) notify the parents of each student involved in an incident of bullying, cyber-bullying, hazing, abusive conduct, or retaliation of the incident involving each parent's student.
- (2)
- (a) If a school notifies a parent of an incident or threat required to be reported under Subsection (1), the school shall produce and maintain a record that verifies that the parent was notified of the incident or threat.
- (b) A school shall maintain a record described in Subsection (2)(a) in accordance with the requirements of:
- (i)Title 53E, Chapter 9, Part 2, Student Privacy;
- (ii)Title 53E, Chapter 9, Part 3, Student Data Protection;
- (iii) the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act, 20 U.S.C. Sec. 1232g; and
- (iv) 34 C.F.R. Part 99.
- (3) A local school board or charter school governing board shall adopt a policy regarding the process for:
- (a) notifying a parent as required in Subsection (1); and
- (b) producing and retaining a record that verifies that a parent was notified of an incident or threat as required in Subsection (2).
- (4) At the request of a parent, a school may provide information and make recommendations related to an incident or threat described in Subsection (1).
- (5) A school shall:
- (a) provide a student a copy of a record maintained in accordance with this section that relates to the student if the student requests a copy of the record; and
- (b) expunge a record maintained in accordance with this section that relates to a student if the student:
- (i) has graduated from high school; and
- (ii) requests the record be expunged.
Amended by Chapter 293, 2019 General Session
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