Restraining orders: educational institutions.

Plain English Breakdown

The bill summary and digest do not provide specific details on enforcement mechanisms or impacts outside of California.

Restraining Orders for Educational Institutions

This law allows school officials to seek restraining orders on behalf of students and schools when there is violence or a credible threat of violence.

What This Bill Does

• Allows chief administrative officers or their designees at postsecondary educational institutions to seek temporary restraining orders if unlawful violence or credible threats are directed towards the institution, its employees, or students.
• Expands the types of actions that can lead to a restraining order to include making threatening phone calls and sending emails.

Who It Names or Affects

• Chief administrative officers and their designees at postsecondary educational institutions
• Students and employees of these institutions

Terms To Know

Restraining Order

A court order that tells someone to stay away from a person or place.

Chief Administrative Officer

The main leader of an educational institution, like the president of a college.

Limits and Unknowns

• Does not specify what happens if the law is not followed by those who are supposed to enforce it.
• It's unclear how this will affect students or schools outside of California since only the state legislature has passed it.

Official Summary Text

SB 1374, as amended, Niello.
Restraining orders: educational institutions.
Existing law authorizes a chief administrative officer of a postsecondary educational institution, as defined, or an officer or employee designated by the chief administrative officer to maintain order on the school campus or facility, that has a student who has suffered unlawful violence or a credible threat of violence from any individual which can reasonably be construed to be carried out or to have been carried out at the school campus or facility, to seek a temporary restraining order and an injunction on behalf of the student and, at the discretion of the court, any number of other students at the campus or facility, as specified.
This bill would also authorize a chief administrative officer of the postsecondary educational institution or an officer or employee designated by the chief administrative officer to maintain order on the
school campus or facility to seek a temporary restraining order and an injunction on behalf of the postsecondary educational institution, upon
a showing of unlawful violence or a credible threat of violence directed at it.
becoming aware of unlawful violence or a credible threat of violence directed towards the postsecondary educational institution.
The bill would also expand the course of conduct, as defined, for which a temporary restraining order can be sought to include making telephone calls
or sending correspondence, including, but not limited to, email correspondence,
to the postsecondary educational institution
or its employees or students,
or sending correspondence to the chief administrative officer.

Current Bill Text

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