The following definitions apply to this policy:

School property - District and school buildings, grounds, and parking areas; vehicles used for

school purposes; and any location used for a School Board meeting, school athletic event, or

other school-sponsored or school-sanctioned events or activities.

Visitor - Any person other than an enrolled student or District employee.

All visitors to school property are required to report to the Building Principal’s office and receive

permission to remain on school property. All visitors must sign a visitors’ log, show identification, and

wear a visitor’s badge. When leaving the school, visitors must return their badge. On those occasions

when large groups of parents/guardians, friends, and/or community members are invited onto school

property or when community members are attending Board meetings, visitors are not required to sign

in but must follow school officials’ instructions. Persons on school property without permission will be

directed to leave and may be subject to criminal prosecution.

Except as provided in the next paragraph, any person wishing to confer with a staff member should

contact that staff member to make an appointment. Conferences with teachers are held, to the extent

possible, outside school hours or during the teacher’s conference/preparation period.

Requests to access a school building, facility, and/or educational program, or to interview personnel or

a student for purposes of assessing the student’s special education needs, should be made at the

appropriate building. Access shall be facilitated according to guidelines from the Superintendent or

designee.

The School District expects mutual respect, civility, and orderly conduct among all people on school

property or at a school event. No person on school property or at a school event (including visitors,

students, and employees) shall perform any of the following acts:

1. Strike, injure, threaten, harass, or intimidate a staff member, Board member, sports official or

coach, or any other person.

2. Behave in an unsportsmanlike manner, or use vulgar or obscene language.

3. Unless specifically permitted by State law, possess a weapon, any object that can reasonably

be considered a weapon or looks like a weapon, or any dangerous device.

4. Damage or threaten to damage another’s property.

5. Damage or deface school property.

6. Violate any Illinois law, or town or county ordinance.

7. Smoke or otherwise use tobacco products.

8. Distribute, consume, use, possess, or be impaired by or under the influence of an alcoholic

beverage, cannabis, other lawful product, or illegal drug.

9. Be present when the person’s alcoholic beverage, cannabis, other lawful product, or illegal

drug consumption is detectible, regardless of when and/or where the use occurred.

10. Use or possess medical cannabis, unless he or she has complied with policy 7:270,

Administering Medicines to Students, implementing Ashley’s Law.

11. Impede, delay, disrupt, or otherwise interfere with any school activity or function (including

using cellular phones in a disruptive manner).

12. Enter upon any portion of school premises at any time for purposes other than those that are

lawful and authorized by the Board.

13. Operate a motor vehicle: (a) in a risky manner, (b) in excess of 20 miles per hour, or (c) in

violation of an authorized District employee’s directive.

14. Engage in any risky behavior, including roller-blading, roller-skating, or skateboarding.

15. Violate other District policies or regulations, or a directive from an authorized security officer

or District employee.

16. Engage in any conduct that interferes with, disrupts, or adversely affects the District or a School

function.

Convicted Child Sex Offender

State law prohibits a child sex offender from being present on school property or loitering within 500

feet of school property when persons under the age of 18 are present, unless the offender is:

1. A parent/guardian of a student attending the school and has notified the Building Principal of

his or her presence at the school for the purpose of: (i) attending a conference at the school with

school personnel to discuss the progress of his or her child academically or socially, (ii)

participating in child review conferences in which evaluation and placement decisions may be

made with respect to his or her child regarding special education services, or (iii) attending

conferences to discuss other student issues concerning his or her child such as retention and

promotion; or

2. Has permission to be present from the Board, Superintendent, or Superintendent’s designee. If

permission is granted, the Superintendent or Board President shall provide the details of the

offender’s upcoming visit to the Building Principal.

In all cases, the Superintendent, or designee who is a certified employee, shall supervise a child sex

offender whenever the offender is in a child’s vicinity.

Exclusive Bargaining Representative Agent

Upon notifying the Building Principal’s office, authorized agents of an exclusive bargaining

representative will be provided reasonable access to employees in the bargaining unit they represent in

accordance with State law. Such access shall be conducted in a manner that will not impede the normal

operations of the District.

Enforcement

Any staff member may request identification from any person on school property; refusal to provide

such information is a criminal act. The Building Principal or designee shall seek the immediate removal

of any person who refuses to provide requested identification.

Any person who engages in conduct prohibited by this policy may be ejected from or denied admission

to school property in accordance with State law. The person also may be subject to being denied

admission to school athletic or extracurricular events for up to one calendar year in accordance with

the procedures below.

Procedures to Deny Future Admission to Athletic or Extracurricular School Events

Before any person may be denied admission to athletic or extracurricular school events, the person has

a right to a hearing before the Board. The Superintendent may refuse the person admission pending

such hearing. The Superintendent or designee must provide the person with a hearing notice, delivered

or sent by certified mail with return receipt requested, at least ten days before the Board hearing date.

The hearing notice must contain:

1. The date, time, and place of the Board hearing;

2. A description of the prohibited conduct;

3. The proposed time period that admission to school events will be denied; and

4. Instructions on how to waive a hearing.

LEGAL REF.: 20 U.S.C. §7971 et seq., Pro-Children Act of 2001.

Nuding v. Cerro Gordo Community Unit School Dist., 313 Ill. App.3d 344 (4th Dist.

2000).

105 ILCS 5/10-20.5, 10-20.5b, 5/10-22.10, 5/22-33, 5/24-25, and 5/27-23.7(a).

115 ILCS 5/3(c), Ill. Educational Labor Relations Act.

410 ILCS 130/, Compassionate Use of Medical Cannabis Program Act.

410 ILCS 705/, Cannabis Tax and Regulation Act.

430 ILCS 66/, Firearm Concealed Carry Act.

720 ILCS 5/11-9.3, 5/21-1, 5/21-1.2, 5/21-3, 5/21-5, 5/21-5.5, 5/21-9, and 5/21-11.

CROSS REF.: 2:200 (Types of School Board Meetings), 2:230 (Public Participation at School

Board Meetings and Petitions to the Board), 4:170 (Safety), 5:50 (Drug- and

Alcohol-Free Workplace; E-Cigarette, Tobacco, and Cannabis Prohibition), 6:120

(Education of Children with Disabilities), 6:250 (Community Resource Persons

and Volunteers), 7:190 (Student Behavior), 7:270 (Administering Medicines to

Students), 8:20 (Community Use of School Facilities)

Adopted: August 25, 2025