Requestor
Sharon Kramer
Organization/Agency
HCASA
Requested Information
How many staff members are out of leave due to student assault?
Per year for the last couple of years (is it getting worse?)
Year to date
What is the comparison between how long the student who assaulted a staff member are out of the building vs how long the staff member who was assaulted is out of the building?
I.e. student suspended 6 days, staff out of medical leave for 27 consecutive days
Break down of staff positions and assault
Administrators
Teachers
Paraeducators/support staff
Temporary employees
Per year for the last couple of years (is it getting worse?)
Year to date
What is the comparison between how long the student who assaulted a staff member are out of the building vs how long the staff member who was assaulted is out of the building?
I.e. student suspended 6 days, staff out of medical leave for 27 consecutive days
Break down of staff positions and assault
Administrators
Teachers
Paraeducators/support staff
Temporary employees
Date Received
Status
Complete
Responsive Documents
Responsive to your request, please find attached workers' compensation data on staff who reported an incident that involved students and whether they required medical treatment. Please note, while these are incidents that involved a student, such incidents are not tracked by/categorized by those due to an assault nor the length of time out of the building. Under the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act of 1974 (FERPA), which restricts access to student records, and MPIA GP § 4-313, which prevents disclosure of school district records pertaining to individual students, as well as both under MPIA GP § 4-311, which prevents disclosure of personnel records of an individual, and MPIA GP § 4-329 (b), which prevents disclosure of medical or psychological information about an individual person, we are unable to disclose further details regarding these incidents. For these reasons, we have also separated position types.
For reference, student discipline data reports would contain counts of violation of attack on staff, however this data does not reflect staff injuries that resulted from a violation. Additionally, no records compare the length of student time out of the building to how long a staff member involved is on leave. Under the MPIA process, and as advised in the Nineteenth Edition of the Maryland Public Information Act Manual created by Maryland’s Office of the Attorney General,
an agency is only obligated to produce existing records and is not required to generate new data or summarize data.
For reference, student discipline data reports would contain counts of violation of attack on staff, however this data does not reflect staff injuries that resulted from a violation. Additionally, no records compare the length of student time out of the building to how long a staff member involved is on leave. Under the MPIA process, and as advised in the Nineteenth Edition of the Maryland Public Information Act Manual created by Maryland’s Office of the Attorney General,
an agency is only obligated to produce existing records and is not required to generate new data or summarize data.