Youth Services Unit - Truancy |
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The Hillsboro Police Department, the Hillsboro School District and the Washington County Juvenile Court take the issue of truancy very seriously. If we as adults are unable to keep students in school we will fail to in our efforts to educate them. This has become a coordinated effort in our community with everyone working toward the same goal - that is keeping children in school.
HPD's School Resource Officers (SROs) have been particularly effective in dealing with issues of truancy in our schools, so much so, that an article was published in the September 2008 edition of the FBI Law Enforcement Bulletin, entitled "Effective Truancy Intervention." The FBI's magazine has a readership of more than 200,000 and is circulated within the U.S. and 90 other countries world wide.
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Oregon law 339.020 Duty to send children to school. Except as provided in ORS 339.030, every person having control of any child between the ages of 7 and 18 years who has not completed the 12th grade is required to send such child to and maintain such child in regular attendance at a public full-time school during the entire school term. [Amended by 1965 c.100 §275; 1969 c.160 §1]
339.065 Estimates of attendance; irregular attendance; excused absences. (1) In estimating regular attendance for purposes of the compulsory attendance provisions of ORS 339.005 to 339.030, 339.040 to 339.125, 339.137, 339.420 and 339.990, the principal or teacher shall consider all unexcused absences. Eight unexcused one-half day absences in any four-week period during which the school is in session shall be considered irregular attendance.
(2) An absence may be excused by a principal or teacher if the absence is caused by the pupil’s sickness, by the sickness of some member of the pupil’s family or by an emergency. A principal or teacher may also excuse absences for other reasons where satisfactory arrangements are made in advance of the absence.
(3) Any pupil may be excused from attendance by the district school board for a period not to exceed five days in a term of three months or not to exceed 10 days in any term of at least six months. Any such excuse shall be in writing directed to the principal of the school which the pupil attends. [1965 c.100 §281; 1973
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Phone: 503-681-6496
For more information on truancy issues contact your SRO or the Youth Services Unit Supervisor, Sergeant Alex Oh.
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Hillsboro Police • 250 SE 10th AVE • Hillsboro OR 97123 • (503) 681-6190 • Email |
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