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Personnel -- Certified and Non-Certified

Employee Protection

An employee may use necessary reasonable force to protect himself/herself from attack, to protect another person or property, to quell a disturbance threatening physical injury to others, or to obtain possession of weapons or other dangerous objects upon the person or in the control of a student.

Employees shall immediately report assaults in connection with their employment to their Principal or immediate superior and to local law enforcement agencies. Such assault shall be reported immediately to the Superintendent who shall comply with reasonable requests from employees for information relating to incident or the persons involved. The Superintendent shall serve as liaison between the employee, the police and the courts.

No school administrator shall interfere with the right of a teacher or other school employee to file a complaint with the local police authority in cases of threats of physical violence or actual physical violence against such teacher or employee.

The Board of Education will report annually to the State Board of Education the number of threats and physical assaults made by students upon teachers, administrators, and other school personnel and any physical assaults with dangerous weapons by students upon other students.

In criminal or civil proceedings brought against an employee alleging an employee assault related to his/her employment, the employee may request the Board of Education to furnish legal counsel, within the limits set by law, in defense of such criminal or civil allegations.

The Board of Education shall reimburse an employee for medical, surgical or hospital expenses (less any insurance reimbursement) incurred from any injury in the course of employment.

Section 52-557b of the General Statutes grants immunity from liability for emergency medical assistance to a person in need of provided by a teacher or other school personnel on school grounds, in a school building, or at a school function, provided that the teacher or other staff member has completed a course in first aid offered by the American Red Cross, the American Heart Association, the State Department of Health Services, or any municipal health department, as certified by that agency.  Such employee has such immunity against civil damages for personal injuries from acts or omissions by the person giving the emergency care or first aid, that might constitute ordinary negligence. Such immunity does not apply to acts or omissions constituting gross, willful or wanton negligence.

Legal Reference:   Connecticut General Statutes

10-233b Removal of pupils from class.

10-233c Suspension of pupils.

10-233g Boards to report school violence. Reports of principals to police authority.

10-235 Indemnification of teachers, Board and commission members and employees in damage suits; expenses of litigation.

10-236  Liability insurance.

10-236a Indemnification of educational personnel assaulted in the line of duty.

52-557b Immunity from liability for emergency medical assistance, first aid or medication by injection. School personnel not required to administer or render.

53a-18 Use of reasonable physical force or deadly physical force generally.

53a-19 Use of physical force in defense of person.

Policy adopted:  7/11/05