Policies - Cyber Bullying
and Harassment
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Definition of Cyber
Bullying
Cyber Bullying is the use of electronic information and communication devices to willfully and repeatedly harm either a person or persons through the medium of electronic text, photos, or videos. Examples of this behavior include but are not limited to:
- Sending false,
cruel, vicious messages.
- Creating websites
that have stories,
cartoons, pictures, and
jokes ridiculing others.
- Breaking into an
email account and
sending vicious or
embarrassing materials
to others.
- Engaging someone
in electronic
communication, tricking that
person into revealing
sensitive personal
information and forwarding
that information to
others.
- Posting of a
student picture without
their permission.
Bullying of this nature creates a hostile, disruptive environment on the school campus and is a violation of a student’s right to be safe and secure. Cyber Bullying and Harassment will not be tolerated. Actions deliberately threatening, harassing, intimidating an individual or group of individuals, placing an individual in reasonable fear of harm or damaging the individual’s property; or disrupting the orderly operation of the school, will not be tolerated.
The online activities and technologies often used by students engaged in Cyber Bullying include but are not limited to social networking sites, chat rooms and discussion groups, instant messaging, text messaging, computers, cell phones and personal digital devices, digital cameras, cell phone cameras, and web cams. As new technologies emerge, they too may be included with the above forms of electronic communication.
Consequences for Harassment and/or Cyber Bullying
Education Codes 48900.4 and
48900 (r), strictly prohibit
harassment or bullying of
any kind and such behavior
is subject to the following
consequences:
-
Minimum: 1 day
suspension
-
Maximum penalty:
Expulsion
*** Education Codes
48900.4”Harassment, threats,
or intimidation creating an
intimidating or hostile
educational environment”
*** Education Code 48900 (r)
“Engaged in an act of
bullying, including, but not
limited to bullying
committed by means of an
electronic act, as defined
in subdivisions (f) and (k)
of Section 32261, directed
specifically toward a pupil
or school personnel”
If the conduct occurs off
school grounds and causes or
threatens to cause a
substantial disruption at
school or interferes with
the rights of students to be
secure, school
administration may impose
consequences. The
Administration may also
report the Cyber Bullying to
the police.
Actions Steps to
Respond to Cyber Bullying or
Harassment
- Save the evidence. Print the
online harassing.
- Identify the Cyberbully.
- Clearly tell the
Cyberbully to stop.
- Ignore the bully by
leaving the online
environment and/or blocking
communications.
- File a complaint with
the internet or cell phone
company.
- Contact the
Cyber Bully’s parents.
- Contact the school
administration.
- Contact the police.
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