With governor's backing, Black lawmakers seek to ban handcuffing young kids in Colorado schools [View all]
Democratic state Sen. Janet Buckner said she read with horror this week of a lawsuit alleging school resource officers in Douglas County handcuffed an 11-year-old boy and held him for two hours in a patrol car, all for scratching a classmate with a pencil.
It’s the kind of situation a new bill that she’s sponsoring seeks to eliminate.
“He’s going to be in trauma for a long time after that incident,” said Buckner, a former school speech pathologist from Aurora.
At least 65 kids were handcuffed in a two-year period in Denver alone, Chalkbeat Colorado reported. Denver has since eliminated the practice in elementary schools. Buckner’s bill, introduced Friday, would ban handcuffing of elementary students statewide, as well as make a series of other changes intended to overhaul disciplinary procedures in schools and limit the “school-to-prison pipeline.”
Read more: https://www.denverpost.com/2021/03/12/colorado-ban-on-handcuffing-young-kids-black-lawmakers-school-to-prison-pipeline-democrats/
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