Oklahoma Code § 70-5-144

Title 70. Schools: Filing of information or indictment - Notification of
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superintendent - Notification of State Board of Education.
A.  If in the course of an investigation it is discovered that a
person charged in an information or indictment with a felony or
violent misdemeanor is a student or employee of a school district or
a public school in the state, or an employee working on school
property for an entity that provides services to a school district
or a public school on school property, with due regard for the
provisions of subsection C of Section 2-6-102 of Title 10A of the
Oklahoma Statutes, the district attorney shall notify the
superintendent of the district of the charges filed against the
student or employee.  In addition to notifying the superintendent of
the district when charges have been filed against an employee of the
school district, the district attorney shall notify the State Board
of Education.
B.  The school district may take any action it deems necessary
that is in compliance with the requirements of the Family
Educational Rights and Privacy Act of 1974 with regard to such
information.
C.  When an employee of the school district has been convicted,
whether upon a verdict or plea of guilty or nolo contendere, or
received a suspended sentence or any probationary term for a crime
provided for in subparagraph a of paragraph 6 of Section 3-104 of
this title, the district court shall notify the State Board of
Education of said conviction, if the district court has discovered
during the course of the proceedings that the person is an employee
of a school district.
Added by Laws 1999, c. 320, § 33, eff. July 1, 1999.  Amended by
Laws 2001, c. 34, § 1, eff. Nov. 1, 2001; Laws 2003, c. 161, § 1,
eff. July 1, 2003; Laws 2005, c. 205, § 1, eff. July 1, 2005; Laws
2009, c. 234, § 156, emerg. eff. May 21, 2009; Laws 2013, c. 256, §
1, eff. July 1, 2013.

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