TITLE 2. ELEMENTARY AND SECONDARY EDUCATION 33000-65001›DIVISION 4. INSTRUCTION AND SERVICES 46000-65001›PART 27. PUPILS 48000-49703›CHAPTER 6. Pupil Rights and Responsibilities 48900-49056›ARTICLE 5.2. Restraint and Seclusion 49005-49006.4
§ 49005.2
California Education Code · 2026-09 edition · updated 2026-10-03 · California
A pupil has the right to be free from the use of seclusion and behavioral restraints of any form imposed as a means of coercion, discipline, convenience, or retaliation by staff. This right includes, but is not limited to, the right to be free from the use of a drug administered to the pupil in order to control the pupil’s behavior or to restrict the pupil’s freedom of movement, if that drug is not a standard treatment for the pupil’s medical or psychiatric condition.
(Added by Stats. 2018, Ch. 998, Sec. 1. (AB 2657) Effective January 1, 2019.)
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