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Involving Law Enforcement When Students With Disabilities Cause Safety Concerns
Presented by Jeremy J. Neff, Esq.
Thursday | December 5, 2024 • 2 - 3:30 p.m. ET
REGISTER NOWWhen extreme and dangerous behaviors are directly linked to a student’s disability, traditional disciplinary responses are often not legally permissible. But involving law enforcement or school security raises complex legal questions.
Led by experienced attorney Jeremy Neff, this live webinar will provide the knowledge and tools needed to balance the immediate response to safety concerns with students’ legal protections, including FAPE and non-discrimination. Through real-world scenarios, you’ll learn strategies to manage extreme student behaviors, determine when to involve law enforcement and do it appropriately, and ensure compliance with relevant laws.
Along with how to implement proactive behavioral intervention plans that minimize the need for law enforcement involvement, you’ll leave with best practices to:
- Determine when to share personally identifiable student information with law enforcement and SROs in compliance with FERPA
- Ensure that the use of law enforcement or crisis interventions does not disrupt the student’s right to FAPE
- Evaluate and modify a student’s LRE to reduce the likelihood of continued law enforcement involvement
- Seek a student's emergency removal through expedited due process or a Honig injunction
- Do all of these things while keeping the child’s needs at the center of decision-making
About the Presenter
Jeremy Neff, Esq., is a shareholder with the Ohio firm Ennis Britton Co., L.P.A., with offices in Cincinnati, Cleveland, and Columbus. Before becoming an attorney with the firm, Mr. Neff was a high school social studies teacher and coach for several years. He assists clients with a variety of education law issues, including special education, student discipline, negotiations, and labor and employment matters. He has represented boards of education in state and federal court, teacher termination hearings, territory transfer hearings, labor arbitration, special education due process hearings, and in a variety of administrative proceedings including before the State Employment Relations Board, the U.S. Department of Education Office for Civil Rights, the U.S. Department of Justice, the Ohio Department of Education, the Ohio High School Athletics Association, and county boards of revision. Mr. Neff frequently speaks throughout Ohio on education law topics at conferences and staff training seminars, and is a popular presenter at the annual LRP’s National Institute on Legal Issues of Educating Individuals with Disabilities®.
Who Should Attend
- School administrators
- School counselors
- School nurses
- School psychologists
- School attorneys
- Special education directors
- Board-certified behavioral analysts
- School resource officers
- Special education teachers
- General education teachers
- IEP team members
- School employees
Registration Information Main Site (required for Additional Site registrations): $295 per connection
Additional Site for Teleworker: $115 per connection
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Creating a Safe School Environment:
Strategies to Identify and Address Bullying
Presented by by Stephanie Jones, Esq.
Thursday | January 16, 2025 • 2 - 3:30 p.m. ET
REGISTER NOWWith bullying’s staggering social-emotional effects on victims, school staff must be prepared to respond to any incident in a timely and effective manner. Have your entire team attend this live webinar where an experienced education law attorney will equip everyone with the knowledge and tools to be both proactive and reactive to bullying situations.
Stephanie Jones will define bullying so staff can recognize when it is occurring and outline the steps for responding in a way that is compliant and appropriate for the situation. There will also be discussion of when bullying becomes a civil rights issue.
Everyone on your team will leave with proven strategies to:
- Identify and investigate instances of bullying
- Reduce the potential for future incidents of bullying
- Create systems to address and interrupt bullying
- Respond when a special education student is the aggressor in a bullying incident
- Provide supports for students with disabilities and students in other protected classes who are bullied
About the Presenter
Stephanie Jones, Esq., is an experienced leader in the field of public education who is dedicated to providing counsel to Illinois schools both in private practice and as the former General Counsel of the Illinois State Board of Education. She has diverse experience spanning all areas of school law, including labor and employment, litigation, student, business, special education, and board governance matters along with unparalleled knowledge and experience advising school administrators.
Ms. Jones advises school boards on day-to-day issues, but also cutting-edge initiatives, including evidence-based funding, the Open Meetings Act, Freedom of Information Act, agency procurement along with student discipline, residency, wellness, records, and competency-based education. She has advised school boards and school administrators regarding student discipline, student Constitutional rights, curriculum, residency, homelessness, records issues and has extensive experience advising school districts regarding the Every Student Succeeds Act. She proactively manages complex special education matters for clients, including attending IEP meetings, special education mediation/resolutions, and due process hearings as well as responding to complaints filed with the state board of education and the Office for Civil Rights.
Who Should Attend
- School administrators
- Special education teachers
- General education teachers
- Special education staff
- School attorneys
- Social workers
- School mental health staff
Registration Information Main Site (required for Additional Site registrations): $295 per connection
Additional Site for Teleworker: $115 per connection
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