19 Tex. Admin. Code § 103.1207 - Unauthorized Persons: Refusal of Entry, Ejection, Identification, and Appeal
(a) A school administrator, school resource
officer, or school district peace officer of a school district may refuse to
allow a person to enter on or may eject a person from property under the
district's control if the person refuses to leave peaceably on request and:
(1) the person poses a substantial risk of
harm to any person; or
(2) the
person behaves in a manner that is inappropriate for a school setting; and
(A) the administrator, resource officer, or
peace officer issues a verbal warning to the person that the person's behavior
is inappropriate and may result in the person's refusal of entry or ejection;
and
(B) the person persists in that
behavior.
(b)
Identification may be required of any person on property under a district's
control.
(c) Each school district
shall maintain a record of each verbal warning issued under subsection
(a)(2)(A) of this section, including the name of the person to whom the warning
was issued and the date of issuance.
(d) At the time a person is refused entry to
or ejected from a school district's property under this section, the district
shall provide to the person written information explaining the appeal process
set forth in subsection (h) of this section.
(e) If a parent or guardian of a child
enrolled in a school district is refused entry to the district's property under
this section, the district shall accommodate the parent or guardian to ensure
that the parent or guardian may participate in the child's admission, review,
and dismissal committee or in the child's team established under the
Rehabilitation Act of 1973, Section 504, (29 United
States Code, §
794), in accordance with
federal law.
(f) The term of a
person's refusal of entry to or ejection from a school district's property
under this section may not exceed two years.
(g) A school district shall post on the
district's Internet website and each district campus shall post on any Internet
website of the campus a notice regarding the provisions of this section,
including the appeal process set forth in subsection (h) of this
section.
(h) A school district's
board of trustees shall adopt a policy that uses the school district's existing
grievance process to permit a person refused entry to or ejected from property
controlled by the school district under this section to appeal such refusal of
entry or ejection. The policy must permit a person appealing under this section
to address the school district's board of trustees in person within 90 days of
the commencement of the appeal, unless the appeal is granted before the school
district's board of trustees considers the appeal.
(i) A decision of the board of trustees to
grant or deny an appeal under this section is final and may only be further
appealed under the applicable provisions of Texas Education Code, §
7.057.
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