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STATEHOUSE — State lawmakers are moving forward with a bill that would require school districts to place security cameras in their special education classrooms.
You may have heard about the case of abuse of a special education student within Brownsburg schools from last year in which a teacher and a teacher’s aide were fired. Those school employees were caught because of security cameras that were in the special ed classrooms.
A bill written by State Rep Beck Cash (R-Zionsville) would make those cameras a requirement in public schools.
“This legislation is about protecting our most vulnerable students and their teachers,” Cash said on the Indiana House floor. “By putting cameras in our seclusion classrooms and classrooms with our most severely disabled children, we have an opportunity to join multiple other states that have been proactive.”
Cash’s bill also has a provision that all of this is subject to funding, which would have to be figured out next year when the legislature convenes to put together the state’s next spending plan. That is what has Democrats hung up about the bill.