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Education Code § 49005.2

ARTICLE 5.2. Restraint and Seclusion

Current as of September 28, 2026Ed. Code, § 49005.2Official source ↗

Added by Stats. 2018, Ch. 998, Sec. 1. (AB 2657) Effective January 1, 2019.

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.