ERIC Number: EJ1229304
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2019
Pages: 16
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School Resource Officers and Students with Disabilities: A Disproportional Connection?
Exceptionality, v27 n4 p299-314 2019
A comprehensive search of the Westlaw case database for the period January 1, 2008 to August 31, 2018 identified 22 court decisions that contained federal civil rights claim rulings specific to the actions of school resource officers in response to the conduct of students with disabilities. Both the quantitative and qualitative results revealed (a) a disproportionately high incidence of such court decisions among a larger sampling of 79 court decisions with such civil rights claims for public school students in general; (b) a wide variety of predominantly behavior-related disabilities, such as autism and emotional disturbance; (c) a notable number of cases in which the school resource officer's actions were questionable in terms of disproportionately excessive force in relation to conduct that was often disability-connected and not substantially dangerous to self or others; and (d) rather gross and defendant-skewed judicial rulings. The recommendations were primarily for professional proactivity that includes but extends beyond reform of legal requirements.
Descriptors: Students with Disabilities, Security Personnel, School Personnel, Court Litigation, Civil Rights, Public Schools, Student Behavior
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