California Education Code

§ 49005.2

EDC § 49005.2 Effective Jan 1, 2019Div. 4 · Title 2 · Part 27 · Ch. 6 · Art. 5.2

Statute text

A pupil has the right to be free from the use of seclusion and behavioral restraints of any form imposed as a means of coercion, discipline, convenience, or retaliation by staff. This right includes, but is not limited to, the right to be free from the use of a drug administered to the pupil in order to control the pupil’s behavior or to restrict the pupil’s freedom of movement, if that drug is not a standard treatment for the pupil’s medical or psychiatric condition.

Legislative history

Added by Stats. 2018, Ch. 998, Sec. 1. (AB 2657) Effective January 1, 2019.