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RESPONSIBILITIES
Privacy of Pupils The Board of Education recognizes that an integral part of its responsibility for the pupils entrusted to its care is the safeguarding of information about those pupils. The Board of Education respects the privacy of the pupils of this district and their right to be immune from public disclosure. To this end, the Board of Education directs that the names of pupils classified as handicapped or identified for study by the child study team, or those under 18 years of age whose conduct has been disciplined, shall not become part of the agenda or minutes of a public meeting nor part of any public record of the Board of Education, but such pupils shall be designated by code. Lists of pupils and individual pupils' names may be released when such pupils have achieved a distinction or honor granted by the Morris School District, except that any pupil's written request that his/her name not be so released shall be granted. The Superintendent shall instruct staff members that, with respect to the pupils in their charge, they occupy a position of trust, and must respect the need for confidentiality in that relationship. The activities, remarks and problems of pupils are not fit subjects for conversation outside of school or with anyone not directly related to the welfare of those pupils. Date: April 14, 1986 June 10, 2002, First Reading July 29, 2002, Approved Legal References: N.J.A.C. 6:28-2.1(g) Written policy to prevent needless public labeling of handicapped Cross References: 1120 Board of Education meetings 5126 Awards for Achievement 5145.5 Exploitation Key Words Privacy, Privacy of Pupils |
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