Okla. Stat. tit. 70, § 70-5-144

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Filing of information or indictment - Notification of

Official statutory text

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.

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