HCPSS MPIA Request #2023-151

Requestor
Carrie Hall
Requested Information
I am requesting disciplinary referral information submitted during the current school year (2023) for Long Reach HS, Wilde Lake HS, and Oakland Mills HS. Please include the Date of Incident, Disciplinary Action (Disposition/Description), MSDE Category, Offence (Violation), Referral Last Name, Referral First name. I am looking for data similar to HCPSS MPIA Request #2023-128 .

Is it possible to get information about what period the tardies occurred? Also to what race the student falls under?
Date Received
Status
Complete
Responsive Documents
Responsive to this request, please find attached requested data from an available summary report on office disciplinary referrals for the current school year from Long Reach High School, Wilde Lake High School, and Oakland Mills High School, similar to data provided under MPIA 2023-128. Please note, this report only reflects those referrals for which a student violation was identified. Additionally, there could be multiple violations of the code of conduct represented in a single student incident/referral, therefore entries on sheet one represent each violation. Sheet two summarizes the total unique incidents/referrals and students represented.

HCPSS must protect against the potential disclosures of personally identifiable information about students as required by both the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act of 1974 (FERPA), which restricts access to student records, and MPIA GP ยง 4-313, which prevents disclosure of school district records pertaining to individual students. In accordance, given this report contains information on an incident-specific level about individual student discipline, the addition of time/class period and race has the potential to reveal educational records. As such, we have included these data points on separate sheets. No record of period is included in the summary report, however sheet three includes time of incident related to violations for tardiness. Sheet four includes races related to individual incidents.

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