Bill refining allowable restraint and seclusion practices in schools advances out of House committee

The House Education Committee advanced a bill refining definitions of allowable physical discipline in public schools.
Bellevue Reporter

School board passes revised restraint policy

The Bellevue School Board voted Tuesday night to pass a revised form of its emergency restraint policy for special needs students. The version of the policy passed Tuesday was extensively rewritten to ...
South Florida Reporter

Safeguarding Students: The Prohibition of Prone Restraints in California Schools

California’s prohibition of prone restraints in schools marks a transformative step for student rights and educational safety ...
Yahoo

Restraint methods allegedly used at Trails Carolina point to link between troubled teen industry, discredited ‘attachment therapy’

LAKE TOXAWAY, N.C. (WGHP) — The mental image of a child strapped down or held in place by multiple adults might conjure the image of an exorcism movie to most. However, away from Hollywood movie magic ...
The Post-Crescent

Report: Seclusion and restraint incidents in Wisconsin schools down 8% statewide in 2022-23

While physically restraining or separating students from their classmates should only be used as a "last resort" by schools, it still happened thousands of times at schools across the state in 2022-23 ...
The Denver Post

Colorado prisons’ restraint techniques amount to “torture” and need reform, lawmaker says

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Tyler Himelstieb insisted he was OK: By the time he returned to San Carlos Correctional Facility from the hospital, the medications he’d been missing had ...