I am requesting the following: 1. Numbers of students in special education and total who were restrained by grade level and by HCPSS school location for the 2018-2019 and 2019-2020 school years. Note that the data available as part of request 2019-094 were only 2018-2019 year to date (approximately half the year). 2. Number of students in special education and total who were secluded by grade level and by HCPSS school location for the 2018-2019 and 2019-2020 school years. 3. Records listing names of staff who received the HCPSS restraint training by school for the 2018-2019 and 2019-2020 school years 4. Records indicating the training or certification of those providers, teachers, or trainers who provide HCPSS restraint training for staff. 5. Any available data (counts, school locations, grade levels) on injuries to students or staff that occurred during, or as a result of, restraint or seclusion procedures.
Date Received
Status
Complete
Response Notes
Responsive to this request, please find below available data similar to that provided under MPIA 2019-094. HCPSS has made substantial efforts to ensure the accuracy of this information; however, data collection and reporting is consistently subject to change. Please be mindful when comparing data as many variances can occur between reports based on date pulled, parameters used, categories included, etc.
While injuries to students and/or staff during an incident may be noted under an individual student’s record, which is confidential under both 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, there is no existing report that pulls a total or summary of injury data. Under the MPIA process, and as advised in the Fifteenth 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.
SY2018-2019 Summary of Restraint/Seclusion Incidents: Existing reports including responsive data on seclusion and restraint numbers by school as separate incident types for all HCPSS students, as well as combined seclusion and restraint totals by grade and school for all HCPSS students and special education.
SY2019-2020 Summary of Restraint/Seclusion Incidents: Existing reports including responsive data on seclusion and restraint numbers by school as separate incident types for all HCPSS students, as well as combined seclusion and restraint totals by grade and school for all HCPSS students and special education.
Safety Care Training: Existing reports including dates current HCPSS staff members most recently completed an initial and refresher course as applicable in Safety Care, as well as those HCPSS staff members who are certified Safety Care trainers along with the dates of their full and refresher courses as applicable in training.
Related to training or certification of trainers, please find here summary information on Safety Care Training. Staff indicates training is provided through Quality Based Solutions to Complex Behavioral Challenges to train our trainers, who then train staff, to provide both the full training, refresher training, and Safety Care Basics for all administrators and school based staff.
First aid safety care is provided in collaboration with Health Services utilizing HCPSS nursing staff.
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