From Sheryl...
These are other NE Laws that
mention 79-267, the law that is currently on the books. They are rewritten
to include the wording of LB205
http://uniweb.legislature.ne.gov/LegalDocs/view.php?page=s7902093000
79-293 Nebraska
Criminal Code violation; principal or principal's designee; notify law
enforcement authorities; immunity.
(1) The principal of a school
or the principal's designee shall notify as soon as possible the appropriate
law enforcement authorities, of the county or city in which the school
is located, of any act of the student described in section 79-267 which
the principal or designee knows or suspects is a violation of the Nebraska
Criminal Code.
(2) The principal, the principal's
designee, or any other school employee reporting an alleged violation of
the Nebraska Criminal Code shall not be civilly or criminally liable as
a result of any report authorized by this section unless (a) such report
was false and the person making such report knew or should have known it
was false or (b) the report was made with negligent disregard for the truth
or falsity of the report.
Section 79-267 - Revised
Statutes - Chapter 79
Student conduct constituting
grounds for long-term suspension, expulsion, or mandatory reassignment;
enumerated; alternatives for truant or tardy students.
The following student conduct
shall constitute grounds for long-term suspension, expulsion, or mandatory
reassignment, subject to the procedural provisions of the Student Discipline
Act, when such activity occurs on school grounds, in a vehicle owned, leased,
or contracted by a school being used for a school purpose or in a vehicle
being driven for a school purpose by a school employee or by his or her
designee, or at a school-sponsored activity or athletic event:
(1) Use of violence, force, coercion,
threat, intimidation, or similar conduct in a manner that constitutes a
substantial interference with school purposes;
(2) Willfully causing or attempting
to cause substantial damage to property, stealing or attempting to steal
property of substantial value, or repeated damage or theft involving property;
(3) Causing or attempting to
cause personal injury to a school employee, to a school volunteer, or to
any student. Personal injury caused by accident, self-defense, or other
action undertaken on the reasonable belief that it was necessary to protect
some other person shall not constitute a violation of this subdivision;
(4) Threatening or intimidating
any student for the purpose of or with the intent of obtaining money or
anything of value from such student;
(5) Knowingly possessing, handling,
or transmitting any object or material that is ordinarily or generally
considered a weapon;
(6) Engaging in the unlawful
possession, selling, dispensing, or use of a controlled substance or an
imitation controlled substance, as defined in section 28-401, a substance
represented to be a controlled substance, or alcoholic liquor as defined
in section 53-103 or being under the influence of a controlled substance
or alcoholic liquor;
(7) Public indecency as defined
in section 28-806, except that this subdivision shall apply only to students
at least twelve years of age but less than nineteen years of age;
(8) Sexually assaulting or attempting
to sexually assault any person if a complaint has been filed by a prosecutor
in a court of competent jurisdiction alleging that the student has sexually
assaulted or attempted to sexually assault any person, including sexual
assaults or attempted sexual assaults which occur off school grounds not
at a school function, activity, or event. For purposes of this subdivision,
sexual assault means sexual assault in the first degree as defined in section
28-319, sexual assault in the second degree as defined in section 28-320,
sexual assault of a child in the second or third degree as defined in section
28-320.01, or sexual assault of a child in the first degree as defined
in section 28-319.01, as such sections now provide or may hereafter from
time to time be amended;
(9) Engaging in any other activity
forbidden by the laws of the State of Nebraska which activity constitutes
a danger to other students or interferes with school purposes; or
(10) A repeated violation of
any rules and standards validly established pursuant to section 79-262
if such violations constitute a substantial interference with school purposes.
It is the intent of the Legislature
that alternatives to suspension or expulsion be imposed against a student
who is truant, tardy, or otherwise absent from required school activities.
