{"id":104,"date":"2008-09-20T16:45:59","date_gmt":"2008-09-20T21:45:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/?p=104"},"modified":"2020-02-04T22:45:46","modified_gmt":"2020-02-05T02:45:46","slug":"handcuffs-bruises-disability-rights-files-suit-against-wake-county-schools","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/handcuffs-bruises-disability-rights-files-suit-against-wake-county-schools\/","title":{"rendered":"Handcuffs? Bruises? Disability Rights Files Suit Against Wake County Schools"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"padding-bottom:20px; padding-top:10px;\" class=\"hupso-share-buttons\"><!-- Hupso Share Buttons - https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/ --><a class=\"hupso_pop\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/buttons\/gallery\/share-button-gray.png\" style=\"border:0px\" alt=\"Share\" \/><\/a><script type=\"text\/javascript\">var hupso_services=new Array(\"Twitter\",\"Facebook\",\"Google Plus\",\"Pinterest\",\"Linkedin\",\"StumbleUpon\",\"Digg\",\"Reddit\",\"Bebo\",\"Delicious\");var hupso_icon_type = \"labels\";var hupso_background=\"#FFFFFF\";var hupso_border=\"#FFFFFF\";var hupso_image_folder_url = \"\";var hupso_twitter_via=\"wrightslaw\";var hupso_url=\"\";var hupso_title=\"Handcuffs%3F%20Bruises%3F%20Disability%20Rights%20Files%20Suit%20Against%20Wake%20County%20Schools\";<\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/js\/share.js\"><\/script><!-- Hupso Share Buttons --><\/div><p>On Thursday, September 18, Pete and Pam presented a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/speak\/archive\/08.09.nc.htm\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">special education law and advocacy training program in Chapel Hill, NC<\/span><\/a>. After checking in, we picked up an email from an old friend who advised that \u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/disabilityrightsnc.org\/\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">Disability Rights of North Carolina (DRNC)<\/span><\/a> had just filed a lawsuit in federal court against the Wake County Board of Education (Thanks, David). The complaint alleged that children with autism were . . .<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>. . . improperly restrained in class, including a child in handcuffs and a child returning home from school with bruises. Another child developed migraine headaches and panic attacks after witnessing the handcuffs and physical restraints used on classmates\u00a0at Carroll Middle School in Raleigh.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" style=\"float: left; border: 1px solid black; margin: 3px 5px 3px 5px;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/images\/carroll.ms.jpg\" alt=\"Carroll Middle School\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Disability Rights also learned that a vacant classroom, the &#8220;WWF room,&#8221; was used for students to wrestle with one another and with teaching assistants to &#8220;release aggression.&#8221; (Editor&#8217;s note: We&#8217;d like to see the research that supports this practice.)<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000080;\">Disability Rights of North Carolina<\/span>\u00a0initiated the lawsuit after Wake County Public Schools refused to cooperate in their investigation of &#8220;serious allegations of abuse and neglect of students in that classroom&#8221; and &#8220;use of improper restraints in the classroom for children with autism at Carroll Middle School.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Citing &#8220;privacy concerns,&#8221; Wake County refused to provide requested information and refused to allow DRNC to interview their staff and students in the classroom.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cladisabilitylaw.org\/\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">Disability Rights of North Carolina<\/span><\/a>\u00a0is the state and federally designated Protection and Advocacy System for people with disabilities in North Carolina. The <strong>statutory mandate of DRNC is to investigate allegations of abuse and neglect of individuals with disabilities<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>This case is similar to two abuse cases decided in 2006:<\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #000080;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/law\/caselaw\/06\/2nd.ct.pa.hartford.pdf\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">Connecticut Office of Protection and Advocacy for Persons with Disabilities v. Hartford\u00a0<\/span><\/a><span style=\"color: #000000; font-style: normal;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/law\/caselaw\/06\/2nd.ct.pa.hartford.pdf\"><em><span style=\"color: #000080;\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">Bd of Educ, Hartford Public Schools and Robert Henry, Sup. of Schools<\/span><\/span><\/em><\/a>\u00a0(2nd Cir. 2006)\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/law\/caselaw\/06\/7th.drw.dpi.seclusion.ferpa.htm\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\"><em>Disability Rights Wisconsin, Inc. v. Wisconsin Dept of Public Instruction &amp; Elizabeth Burmaster, Superintendent of Public Instruction<\/em><\/span><\/a>\u00a0(7th Cir. 2006).<\/p>\n<p>How did the federal appeals courts rule in these cases?<\/p>\n<p>You&#8217;ll find the answers and decisions at\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/info\/abuse.index.htm#law\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\"><span style=\"color: #000000; text-decoration: none;\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">Caselaw:\u00a0Abuse, Neglect, Restraints, Seclusion in Public Schools<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>More Information: Disability Rights v. Wake County Public Schools<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wral.com\/news\/local\/video\/3557473\/\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">Disability rights group sues Wake school board &#8211; Video from WRAL<br \/>\n<\/span><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wral.com\/news\/local\/video\/3557473\/\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">http:\/\/www.wral.com\/news\/local\/video\/3557473\/<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wral.com\/news\/local\/story\/3553528\/\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">Disability rights group sues Wake school board<\/span>,<\/a>\u00a0news article from WRAL<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.wral.com\/news\/local\/story\/3553528\/\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">http:\/\/www.wral.com\/news\/local\/story\/3553528\/<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/law\/pleadings\/complaint.nc.drnc.wake.abuse.pdf\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">Complaint in <em>DRNC v. Wake County Bd. of Ed. and Robert Sturey, Director of Special Education<\/em><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/law\/pleadings\/complaint.nc.drnc.wake.abuse.pdf\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/law\/pleadings\/complaint.nc.drnc.wake.abuse.pdf<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Thursday, September 18, Pete and Pam presented a special education law and advocacy training program in Chapel Hill, NC. After checking in, we picked up an email from an <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/handcuffs-bruises-disability-rights-files-suit-against-wake-county-schools\/\">Continue Reading \u2192<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1368,3,137,1266,5,7,1364,1369],"tags":[206,42,87,1315,207],"class_list":["post-104","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-abuse-restraints","category-advocacy","category-attorneys","category-due-process","category-idea-2004","category-legal-news","category-school-administration-school-culture","category-state-complaints","tag-abuse","tag-autism","tag-privacy","tag-restraints","tag-wake-county-public-schools"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=104"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25590,"href":"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104\/revisions\/25590"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=104"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=104"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}