Safe School Plan - William S. Hart Union High School District

WM. S. HART UNION HIGH SCHOOL DISTRICT
ADMINISTRATIVE REGULATIONS
SERIES NO. 4000
SERIES TITLE: PERSONNEL
SUB-TITLE NO. 4113.1
SUB-TITLE: Child Abuse Reporting
Procedures
The chief administrator or designee of each school or certificated or classified division of the
district shall annually review with the staff detection and reporting procedures regarding known or
suspected child abuse. Board Policy and Administrative Regulation 4113.1 and Penal Code Section
11165-11172 shall be disseminated to staff.
In conformance with the requirements of the Penal Code, any employee who-has knowledge of or
observes a child in his or her professional capacity or within the scope of his or her employment
whom he or she knows or reasonably suspects has been the victim of child abuse shall report the
known or suspected instance of child abuse to the Sheriff and/or child protective agency
immediately or as soon as practically possible by telephone and shall prepare and send a written
report thereof within 36 hours of receiving the information concerning the incident. The employee
making such report shall make a photocopy of the written report and cause it to be delivered to the
Principal. Section A - Reporting Party on this copy may be cut off or otherwise obliterated at the
discretion of the employee. The Principal shall forward this copy to the Director of Pupil Personnel
Services. These reports are not pupil records. They are confidential documents, which shall not be
released except by order of a court of competent jurisdiction.
For purposes of this Regulation and the Penal Code, "reasonable suspicion" means that it is
objectively reasonable for a person to entertain such a suspicion, based upon facts that could cause a
reasonable person in a like situation, drawing when appropriate on his or her training and
experience, to suspect child abuse.
Any employee who has received information and training on reporting of suspected child abuse and
who fails to report an instance, of child abuse which he or she knows to exist or reasonably should
know to exist may be found guilty of a misdemeanor punishable by confinement in county jail for up
to six months or by fine up to $1,000 or by both.
DATE: May 13, 1986
BOARD APPROVED (WHEN APPROPRIATE):
REVISED: September 2, 1986
November 14, 1986
LEGAL REFERENCE:
Penal Code Section 11165 et seq
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