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SECTION 3028-C
Protection of school employees who report acts of violence and weapons possession
Education (EDN) CHAPTER 16, TITLE 4, ARTICLE 61
§ 3028-c. Protection of school employees who report acts of violence
and weapons possession. Any school employee having reasonable cause to
suspect that a person has committed an act of violence while in or on
school property, or having reasonable cause to suspect that a person has
committed an act of violence upon a student, school employee or
volunteer either upon school grounds or elsewhere, or having reasonable
cause to suspect that a person has brought a gun, knife, bomb or other
instrument capable of or that appears capable of causing death or
physical injury upon school grounds who in good faith reports such
information to school officials, to the commissioner, or to law
enforcement authorities, shall have immunity from any civil liability
that may arise from the making of such report, and no school district or
school district employee shall take, request or cause a retaliatory
action against any such employee who makes such report.