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Oklahoma
Parental consent for a student's psychological examination and for school surveys eliciting personal information
Okla. Stat. tit. 70, Sec. 11-107
In force since .
A sensitive categories rule binding government bodies.
- Instrument type
- an act of a legislature
- Obligation class
- Consent
- Audit expectation
- none
What it requires
- Do not require an unemancipated minor student, as part of any applicable program, to submit to psychiatric or psychological examination, testing or treatment without the prior written consent of the parent or guardian (Okla. Stat. tit. 70, Sec. 11-107).
- If you are a teacher or staff member, do not, without that consent, elicit by written survey or written examination from a student information of a personal or private nature about religious beliefs, mental or psychological problems potentially embarrassing to the student or the student's family, sexual behavior and attitudes, critical appraisals of other individuals with whom the student has a close family relationship, or legally recognized privileged communication (Okla. Stat. tit. 70, Sec. 11-107).
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What record it asks for
Logging duty
Section 11-107 bars requiring a student to undergo a psychiatric or psychological examination, and bars eliciting personal information by written survey or examination, without a parent's prior written consent. It imposes no duty to keep a log or record, names no audit and gives no party a right to a record. It states no territorial clause.
- Kind
- None
- As of
What this law does
Without the prior written consent of the parent or guardian, an unemancipated minor student may not be required, as part of any applicable program, to submit to psychiatric or psychological examination, testing or treatment.
Without that consent, a teacher or staff member may not elicit by written survey or written examination from a student information of a personal or private nature about religious beliefs, mental or psychological problems potentially embarrassing to the student or the student's family, sexual behavior and attitudes, critical appraisals of other individuals with whom the student has a close family relationship, or legally recognized privileged communication.
The section sits in the Oklahoma School Code, whose purpose is to provide for a state system of public school education. The section was enacted by Laws 1981, chapter 215, section 2, with an emergency effective date of .
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