PARRIS N. GLENDENING, Governor

Ch. 112

CHAPTER 112
(House Bill 519)

AN ACT concerning

Student Safety and Support Act

FOR the purpose of requiring the disclosure, under certain circumstances, of a police
record and a juvenile court record concerning a child to the superintendent of
schools, for the county in which the child is enrolled, or the superintendent's
designee; a designee from the superintendent's office; requiring the disclosure,
under certain circumstances, of certain information concerning arrests for certain
offenses; requiring confidentiality of the certain information contained in certain
juvenile records obtained by the superintendent; prohibiting the use of certain
information as the basis for suspending, expelling, or removing a certain child from
a school providing for the use and dissemination of certain information obtained by
a local superintendent of schools under this Act; requiring the State Board of
Education to adopt certain regulations by a certain date; defining certain terms;
providing for the effective date of this Act; and generally relating to police and
juvenile court records of a child. the superintendent's designee; requiring confidentiality
of the records obtained by the superintendent; prohibiting the use of certain information
as the basis for suspending, expelling, or removing a certain child from a school;
requiring the State Board of Education to adopt certain regulations by a certain date;
defining certain terms; providing for the effective date of this Act; and generally relating
to police and juvenile court records of a child.

BY repealing and reenacting, with amendments,
Article - Courts and Judicial Proceedings
Section 3-828(a) and (b)(1)
Annotated Code of Maryland
(1989 Replacement Volume and 1994 Supplement)

BY adding to

Article - Education

Section 7-302.1

Annotated Code of Maryland

(1992 Replacement Volume and 1994 Supplement)

SECTION 1. BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF
MARYLAND, That the Laws of Maryland read as follows:

Article - Courts and Judicial Proceedings

3-828.

(a) A police record concerning a child is confidential and shall be maintained
separate from those of adults. Its contents may not be divulged, by subpoena or otherwise,
except by order of the court upon good cause shown OR AS OTHERWISE PROVIDED IN §

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