TRANSFERS BY STUDENT VICTIMS OF CRIME

Date Reviewed / Approved:

 

Policy Number:  2025.00

Rescinds Policy Number:

Issued:  06/02/2011

 

 

 

 

 

Whenever any student has been the victim of any crime against the person pursuant to Chapter 4 (§ 18.2-30 et. seq.) of Title 18.2, of the Code of Virginia, including crimes by mobs, crimes by gangs, terrorism offenses, kidnapping and related offenses, assaults and bodily woundings, robbery, extortion or other threats, or sexual assault, and such crime was committed:

 

     by another student attending classes in the school, or

 

     by any employee of the School Board, or 

 

     by any volunteer, contract worker or other person who regularly performs services in the school, or

 

     if the crime was committed upon the school property or on any school bus owned or operated by the school division,

 

the student upon whom the crime was committed  shall, upon written request from the student’s parents, or the student, if such student is an emancipated minor, be permitted to transfer to another comparable school within the Division if available.

 

For purposes of this policy, “victim” means any student who has been the victim of a crime against the person pursuant to Chapter 4 (§ 18.2-30 et. seq.) of Title 18.2, of the Code of Virginia, and who has suffered physical, psychological, or economic harm as a direct result of the commission of such crime.

 

Legal Refs.:     20 U.S.C. § 7912.

 

Code of Virginia, §§ 22.1-3, 22.1-3.3.

 

 

DANVILLE SCHOOL BOARD

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