Illinois § 10-21.7

Full text of Illinois Illinois Compiled Statutes § 10-21.7, with citation guidance and answers to common questions.

§ 10-21.7.

Attacks on school personnel. (a) In the Section, "school" means any public or private elementary or secondary school. (b) Upon receipt of a written complaint from any school personnel, the school shall report all incidents of battery committed against teachers, teacher personnel, administrative personnel or educational support personnel to the local law enforcement authorities immediately after the occurrence of the attack. Schools shall also report all of these incidents to the State Board of Education through existing school incident reporting systems as they occur during the year by no later than August 1 for the preceding school year. The State Board of Education shall report data by school district, as collected from school districts, in an annual report of attacks on school personnel and make it available to the public via its website. The local law enforcement authority shall, by March 1 of each year, report the required data from the previous year to the Illinois State Police's Illinois Uniform Crime Reporting Program. (Source: P.A. 102-538, eff. 8-20-21; 102-894, eff. 5-20-22.)

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