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Community Relations

School Volunteers

The Board of Education recognizes that volunteers can make many valuable contributions to our schools. The Board endorses a program encouraging community residents to take an active role in improving schools and to become school volunteers in schools subject to suitable regulations and safeguards. Appropriate recognition of volunteer services shall be made by the Board and district administration.

Volunteers working within the schools must work under the supervision of District staff. Volunteers are held to the same standards of conduct as school staff and must observe all Board of Education policies, including applicable policies on the confidentiality of student information.

Volunteers are required to submit to state and federal criminal record checks and a record check of the Department of Children and Families (DCF) Child Abuse and Neglect Registry. No person required to register as a sex offender under state or federal law or whose name is listed on the DCF registry, may volunteer in any District School.

Legal Reference:   Connecticut General Statutes

10-4g Programs to encourage participation in the educational process

10-220 Duties of Boards of Education

10-235 Indemnification of teachers, board members, employees and certain volunteers and students in damage suits; expenses of litigation.

54-250 definitions

54-251 Registration of person who has committed a criminal offense against a victim who is a minor or a non-violet sexual offense.

54-252 Registration of a person who has committed a sexually violent offense

54-253 Registration of a person who has committed a sexual offense in another jurisdiction

54-254 Registration of person who has committed a felony for a sexual purpose

Policy adopted:  1-9-2023