Illinois' AG Said It's Illegal for Schools to Use Police to Ticket Students. But His Office Told Only One District.

[mucifer]

Despite the attorney general’s declaration that Illinois schools should stop using police to discipline students, officers statewide continue to ticket kids with costly fines. One lawmaker will again pursue legislation to end the practice.

In the strongest rebuke yet of Illinois school districts that ask police to ticket misbehaving students, the state attorney general has declared that the practice — still being used across the state — is illegal and should stop.

The attorney general’s office, which had been investigating student ticketing in one of Illinois’ largest high school districts, found that Township High School District 211 in Palatine broke the law when administrators directed police to fine its students for school-based conduct, and that the practice had an “unjustified disparate impact” on Black and Latino students.

“We strongly encourage other districts and police departments to review their policies and practices,” the office told ProPublica.

https://www.propublica.org/article/illinois-attorney-general-schools-police-ticketing-students-illegal

[Jilly_in_VA]

1. My youngest grandson is in the Criminal Justice program at his HS

He is allowed to issue parking tickets but I don't think any other kind.