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Official Code of Georgia Annotated

Title 20. EDUCATION · Chapter 2. ELEMENTARY AND SECONDARY EDUCATION · Article 16. STUDENTS · Part 1. SCHOOL ATTENDANCE

20-2-671. Disclosure of prior crimes or disciplinary actions.

Active

Current through: Including Acts of the 2025 Regular Session of the General Assembly.

  1. (a)

    If any school administrator determines from the information obtained pursuant to Code Section 15-11-602 or 20-2-670 or from any other source that a student:#

    1. (1)

      Has committed a class A designated felony act or class B designated felony act, as defined in Code Section 15-11-2;#

    2. (2)

      Is the subject of a notice of chronic disciplinary problem made pursuant to Code Section 20-2-765;#

    3. (3)

      Has a current disciplinary and behavioral correction plan pursuant to Code Section 20-2-766; or#

    4. (4)

      Is the subject of a report of the commission of a prohibited act made pursuant to Code Section 20-2-1184,#

    5. such administrator shall so inform all teachers to whom the student is assigned that they may review the information in the student’s file provided pursuant to Code Section 20-2-670 received from other schools or from the juvenile courts.

  2. (b)

    Such information shall be kept confidential.#

The notes below are printed with the section but are not enacted law (O.C.G.A. § 1-1-1(c)). They are shown apart from the text.

History

Code 1981, § 20-2-671, enacted by Ga. L. 1997, p. 1061, § 1; Ga. L. 2000, p. 20, § 16; Ga. L. 2013, p. 294, § 4-34/HB 242; Ga. L. 2025, p. 99, § 2-9/HB 268, effective April 28, 2025.

Amendments

The 2025 amendment, effective April 28, 2025, rewrote the section.

Read the official page (the state's PDF, opened at the page this text was read from).

Current through: Including Acts of the 2025 Regular Session of the General Assembly.

Text read from t20-ch1-2b-(v17)-pdf.pdf, Volume V17, 2022 edition, 2025 supplement, page 212; merge action: replaced; file SHA-256 46f1cc71579d.