2001 Minnesota Statutes

     121A.75 Receipt of disposition order; sharing. 

    (a) For purposes of this section "principal" means a 
 principal or other person having general administrative control 
 and supervision of a school. 

    (b) On receipt of a disposition order under section 
 260B.171, subdivision 3, the superintendent of the student's 
 school district or chief administrative officer of the student's 
 school must immediately transmit the order to the principal of 
 the school where the student is in attendance.  The principal 
 must place the disposition order in the student's permanent 
 education record.  The principal must also immediately notify 
 any counselor directly supervising or reporting on the behavior 
 or progress of the student.  In addition, the principal must 
 immediately notify any teacher or administrator who directly 
 supervises or reports on the behavior or progress of the student 
 whom the principal believes needs the data to work with the 
 student in an appropriate manner, to avoid being needlessly 
 vulnerable, or to protect other persons from needless 
 vulnerability.  The principal may also notify other district 
 employees, substitutes, and volunteers who are in direct contact 
 with the student, if they determine these individuals need the 
 data to work with the student in an appropriate manner, to avoid 
 being needlessly vulnerable, or to protect other persons from 
 needless vulnerability.  When provided in the disposition order, 
 the notice given under this paragraph by the principal must 
 identify the student, outline the offense, and describe any 
 conditions of probation about which the school must provide 
 information.  

    (c) Information received under this subdivision is private 
 data on individuals as defined in section 13.32 and is received 
 for the limited purpose of serving the educational needs of the 
 student and protecting students or staff.  The data may not be 
 further disseminated by the teacher, counselor, staff member, 
 administrator, substitute, or volunteer; except as necessary to 
 serve the student, to protect students or staff, or as otherwise 
 required by law, and only to the following persons: 

    (1) the student; 

    (2) the student's parent or guardian; 

    (3) law enforcement officers; or 

    (4) the student's probation officer. 

    (d) If a student is removed from school as part of the 
 disposition order, the superintendent of the student's school 
 district or chief administrative officer of the student's school 
 must maintain the copy of the order in a secure file and shall 
 notify the principal when the student is returned to school.  If 
 the student is returned to a different school district or 
 school, the student's probation officer must send a copy of the 
 disposition order to the superintendent of the new school 
 district or the chief administrative officer of the new school. 

    (e) The disposition order must be included if the student's 
 permanent education record is released to another school 
 district or educational entity to which the student is 
 transferring under section 120A.22, subdivision 7. 

    (f) Notwithstanding section 138.17, a disposition order 
 received under section 260B.171, subdivision 3, paragraph (a), 
 must be destroyed when the student graduates from school or at 
 the end of the school year in which the student reaches age 23, 
 whichever is earlier.  A disposition order received under 
 section 260B.171, subdivision 3, paragraph (b), must be 
 destroyed when the student is discharged from probation.  

    HIST: 2000 c 451 s 3