Bill Passes to Allow Cameras in Special Ed. Classrooms
A bill to allow cameras in special education classrooms, if requested by the parents, advances from Senate Education. Baton Rouge Senator Franklin Foil authored Senate Bill 86 on behalf of the Louisiana Development Disabilities Council and concerned parents whose special needs children experienced mental and/or physical abuse in the classroom.
“I’m not suggesting it’s a widespread problem but simply a safeguard,” said Foil.
Baton Rouge physician and mother of a nonverbal special needs daughter, Dr. Mary Elizabeth Christian said she will never forget the day when she sat in an Individualized Education Program for her daughter and learned of ongoing abuse.
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BATON ROUGE A bill to allow cameras in special education classrooms if parents or legal guardians request them is headed to the Senate floor.
Sen. Franklin Foil, R-Baton Rouge, the author of Senate Bill 86, said he brought the bill forward on behalf of the Louisiana Developmental Disabilities Council and concerned parents.
The bill, which was approved by the Senate Education Committee Thursday, would require public and charter schools to create policies for the implementation of video and audio in special education classrooms.
The cameras would not be allowed near restrooms or anywhere where a child might be unclothed.
Dr. Mary Elizabeth Christian, a physician in Baton Rouge and the mother of a 21-year-old with autism, epilepsy and neuromuscular disorder, recounted her daughter’s experience with a school in East Baton Rouge Parish.
A bill to allow cameras in special education classrooms, if requested by the parents, advances from Senate Education. Baton Rouge Senator Franklin Foil authored Senate Bill 86 on behalf of the Louisiana Development Disabilities Council and concerned parents whose special needs children experienced mental and/or physical abuse in the classroom.
“I’m not suggesting it’s a widespread problem but simply a safeguard,” said Foil.
Baton Rouge physician and mother of a nonverbal special needs daughter, Dr. Mary Elizabeth Christian said she will never forget the day when she sat in an Individualized Education Program for her daughter and learned of ongoing abuse.