Contra Costa County’s probation department will ban the practice of locking students with disabilities in their cells for extended periods of time as punishment for their behavior in class, while the Contra Costa County Office of Education will retain an outside expert to ensure appropriate educational services for disabled students in detention, according to legal settlements announced Tuesday.
The two settlements were announced by the public interest law firms Disability Rights Advocates and Public Counsel, which filed a class action lawsuit in 2013 in U.S. District Court in San Francisco with three disabled students at Juvenile Hall as named plaintiffs. The suit alleged that some special education students repeatedly were confined to their cells as punishment for more than 22 hours a day.
[For more of this story, written by Jane Meredith Adams, go to http://edsource.org/2015/contr...l/80107#.VV3Y6PlVikp]
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