By next summer, the Ascension Parish school district expects to have video cameras installed in each of its special education classrooms where students spend the majority of their school days, with video available to a student’s parents upon request.
The district’s plan goes beyond what’s required by a state law approved last year that says that the cameras be installed “upon the written request of a parent or legal guardian.”
“We will install the cameras in all of our 43 classrooms” that qualify, Lynn Hathaway, director of special education for the Ascension Parish school system, told school board members last week.
