(KNSI) — The Minnesota Attorney General has issued an opinion regarding using certain holds that can or cannot be used by school resource officers to restrain an aggressor.
Keith Ellison was asked by Minnesota Department of Education Commissioner Willie Jett to clarify the language in the new school discipline law passed as part of the Education Bill signed this spring. The 2023 Legislature passed a law prohibiting prone restraint and other physical holds on students. Ellison’s opinion, the amendments do not limit the types of force that school employees and agents may use to prevent bodily harm or death but retain the instruction that force must be “reasonable” in those situations.
In other situations that do not pose any threat of bodily harm or death, the amendments provide that school employees and agents “shall not use prone restraint” or “inflict any form of physical holding that restricts or impairs a pupil’s ability to breathe,” among other provisions.
Read the official opinion here.
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