Board adopts policy updates, removes references to on-site district police and adds board members as mandated reporters

The San Mateo-Foster City School District Board of Trustees approved a package of board-policy and administrative-regulation updates presented by outside counsel Erica Rodain of AALRR.

Rodain (speaker 23) told trustees the redline changes align policies with recent law, CSBA updates and guidance from the California attorney general. Counsel recommended removing references to "on-site district police" because the district currently has no on-site police, updating a phone area code (to 650) in AR 4030, and using evergreen global email addresses for uniform-complaint and nondiscrimination contacts. Trustee discussion also recommended explicitly adding board members to the list of mandated reporters; counsel said the policy language as written would likely have covered board members but that explicitly listing them was reasonable for clarity.

The motion approved by the board directed staff to adopt the redline changes, remove references to on-site district police where applicable, adopt the global complaint email addresses for applicable policies, correct the phone number in AR 4030, and add board members explicitly to the mandated-reporter list. Trustees approved the motion 5–0.

Rodain noted that if the district later retained its own police force, policies should be updated to reflect that change. The board asked staff to bring any additional global-email changes back for review as needed.

Next steps: staff will implement the redline updates and confirm that any remaining references to on-site district police have been removed across policy documents; the board requested that the proposed global email addresses be brought forward for approval where appropriate.