Idaho Statutes

§ 33-512B — SUICIDAL TENDENCIES — DUTY TO WARN

Idaho·Title 33 EDUCATION·Ch. 5 DISTRICT TRUSTEES
(1)Notwithstanding the provisions of section 33-512 (4), Idaho Code, neither a teacher nor a school district shall have a duty to warn of the suicidal tendencies of a student absent the teacher’s knowledge of direct evidence of such suicidal tendencies.
(2)"Direct evidence" means evidence which directly proves a fact without inference and which in itself, if true, conclusively establishes that fact. Direct evidence would include unequivocal and unambiguous oral or written statements by a student which would not cause a reasonable teacher to speculate regarding the existence of the fact in question; it would not include equivocal or ambiguous oral or written statements by a student which would cause a reasonable teacher to speculate regarding the existence of the fact in question.
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Legislative History

[33-512B, added 1996, ch. 377, sec. 1, p. 1282.]

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