Enacting the Haylee Weissenbach protecting students act to establish the office of education inspector general, authorize the education inspector general to conduct audits, investigations and reviews of educational institutions, require reporting of suspected professional and criminal misconduct by school employees and agents, require certain individuals to register on an educator misconduct registry, require criminal history record checks of school employees and agents and provide for civil ...

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The bill establishes an Office of the Education Inspector General that can audit, investigate and refer cases of professional or criminal misconduct by school employees and agents. It also mandates criminal‑history checks, a public educator misconduct registry, and civil penalties for schools or officials that fail to report or hide abuse. The aim is to improve student safety and accountability across Kansas schools.

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