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Bullying Policy—Reporting and Investigations
Category
Bullying Policy—Reporting and Investigations
State law addresses reporting and investigations.
Mississippi Code 37-11-67 Bullying or harassing behavior in public schools prohibited.
(4) A school employee who has witnessed or has reliable information that a student or school employee has been subject to any act of bullying or harassing behavior shall report the incident to the appropriate school official.
(5) A student or volunteer who has witnessed or has reliable information that a student or school employee has been subject to any act of bullying or harassing behavior should report the incident to the appropriate school official.
Mississippi Code 37-11-69 Anti-bullying personnel and discipline policies and code of student conduct.
(1) Each local school district shall include in its personnel policies, discipline policies and code of student conduct a prohibition against bullying or harassing behavior and adopt procedures for reporting, investigating and addressing such behavior, that:
- (c) Establish procedures for reporting an incident of bullying, investigating a reported incident of bullying and determining whether the reported incident of bullying occur