PHYSICAL INTERVENTION POLICY

Faculty and staff may appropriately touch students when they are administering first aid, breaking up fights, protecting themselves, moving through a crowd to address an emergency, employing passive restraint to a behaviorally, disruptive student, or when necessary to protect the student or other individuals from bodily harm.  Corporal punishment, defined as the use of force to inflict pain as a punishment, is expressly forbidden.  Sufficient physical force may be used when necessary to protect the student or other individuals from bodily harm and to protect property.