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EXPULSION/DUE PROCESSAdministrative RegulationAR 601.4Page 24 of 24Revision Approved (Entire Section) February 28, 1984Revision Approved May 26, 1987Revision Approved December 5, 1989Revision Approved March 22, 1994Revision Approved October 22, 1996Revision Approved March 11, 1997Revision Approved April 28, 1998Revision Approved July 23, 2000Revision Approved September 9, 2003Revision Approved September 27, 2011Appendix H: Teacher Notice of Pupil Disciplinary HistoryTo help prevent student discipline problems and provide a safe school environment, “teachers”*will have access to information about a student’s disciplinary history. The principal or a designeeshall use the available District or outside agency records to inform the teachers of each student whohas, during the previous three school years, or is reasonably suspected to have engaged in anysuspendable or expellable act (as listed in the Education Code 48900), except possession of tobaccoor nicotine products (Education Code 49079).Teachers will be given access to records for all of their students with a disciplinary historyoccurring during the previous three years. Each year, teachers may access our District’sdisciplinary records (i.e., student suspension/expulsion records, outside agency disciplinary records)during the fourth week of school for all of their currently enrolled students. New enrollees willhave their disciplinary history reviewed at the time of enrollment.Our District’s mainframe computer system will be used to create a report of BCSD students withdisciplinary records. The Suspension Systems Menu should be used to create individual studentsuspension reports. The Data Processing Department will distribute the group suspension reports toeach school. A disciplinary violation confirmed by a record provided by an outside agency (e.g.,law enforcement, probation department) will also be made available to the teachers of students withsuch a record. Once the principal or a designee completes the record search and prints a copy of thedisciplinary record, the teachers involved will be asked to come to the office to review theapplicable disciplinary histories. Disciplinary reports will be stamped “Confidential” and stored asa confidential record. Additionally, the law requires teachers to hold information from notices inconfidence; teachers may not give the information they learn from the disciplinary notice to anotherperson.Notices from outside agencies involving students who have committed crimes have some specialdissemination and storage requirements. See the section of entitled “Pupil Record Access, Release,Storage and Transfer,” subsection entitled “Use and Storage of Notices Involving Pupils Who HaveCommitted Crimes.”