How Safe Is The Schoolhouse? An Analysis of State Seclusion and Restraint Laws and Policies

(2017) | Useful to Parent Centers and stakeholders in keeping up to date with their state’s practices regarding restraint and seclusion.

This report was revised in 2017 to discuss new state restraint and seclusion statutes, regulations, rules, and policies and includes all laws in effect as of December 2016. Earlier versions were published in 2012, 2013, 2014, and 2015. The report presents research analyzing and comparing state approaches, and discusses the impact that various state law requirements have.

This report will useful to Parent Centers regarding their state practices around the topic of restraint & seclusion.

Access the report at: http://www.autcom.org/pdf/HowSafeSchoolhouse.pdf

Updated, January 2019