Garfield Re-2 Policies

File: KFA

 

Public Conduct on School Property

Persons using or upon school District property, including all District buildings, parking lots, and any district vehicle used to transport students, will not engage in the conduct below.

Any person considered by the Superintendent or designee to be in violation of this policy will be instructed to leave the District property, and law enforcement may be contacted. Any person who has engaged or District officials reasonably believe will engage in conduct prohibited by this policy may be excluded from District property. 

1. Any conduct that obstructs, disrupts, or interferes with or threatens to obstruct, disrupt, or interfere with the District operations or any activity sponsored or approved by the District. 

2. Physical abuse or threat of harm to any person or school District property. 

3.     Damage or threat of damage to district property regardless of the location or property of a member of the community when such property is located on District property.

4. Forceful or unauthorized entry to or occupation of District facilities, including both buildings and grounds.

5. Use, possession, distribution, or sale of drugs and other controlled substances, alcohol, and other illegal contraband on District property, at District or school sponsored functions, or in any District vehicle transporting students. For purposes of this policy, “controlled substances” means drugs identified as regulated under federal law, including but not limited to marijuana, cocaine, opiates, phencyclidine (PCP), and amphetamines (including methamphetamine).  

6.     Distribution, manufacture, or sale of controlled substances or the possession of controlled substances with intent to distribute them within 1,000 feet of the perimeter of school grounds.

7. Entry onto district buildings or grounds by a person known to be under the

Influence of alcohol or a controlled substance.

8. Unlawful use of any tobacco product.

9. Possession of a deadly weapon on school property or in school buildings, unless such possession is in accordance with C.R.S. 18-12-105.5 or 18-12-214(3). For the purposes of this policy, “deadly weapon” means:

a. a firearm, whether loaded or unloaded;

b. a fixed blade knife with a blade that exceeds three inches in length;

c. a spring-loaded knife or pocket knife with a blade exceeding three and one-half inches in length; or

d. any object, device, instrument, material, or substance, whether animate or inanimate, that is used or intended to be used to inflict death or serious bodily injury including, but not limited to, a BB gun, a slingshot, bludgeon, nun chucks, brass knuckles or artificial knuckles of any kind.

10. Profanity or verbally abusive language.

11. Violation of any federal, state, or municipal law or Board policy.

Adopted: September 24, 1991

Revised: August 1994

Revised: November 27, 2007

Revised: September 25, 2007

Revised: May 14, 2013

Revised: January 28, 2014

Revised: April 28, 2020

Revised : October 22, 2025

 

LEGAL REFS.: C.R.S. 44-3-901 (1)(i)(1)(A) (prohibits consumption of alcohol in any public place without a license or permit)

C.R.S. 18-9-106  (disrupting lawful assembly)

C.R.S. 18-9-108 through 110 (disrupting lawful Assembly)

C.R.S. 18-9-117 (unlawful conduct on public property)

C.R.S. 18-12-105.5(unlawful carrying/possession of weapons on school grounds)

C.R.S. 18-12-214 (3)(a) (person with valid concealed handgun permit may have a handgun on school property as long as hand gun remains in his or her vehicle and if, while the person is not in vehicle, the gun is kept in a compartment and the vehicle is locked)

C.R.S. 18-18-407 (2) (crime to sell, distribute or possess with intent to distribute any controlled substance on or near school grounds or school vehicles)

C.R.S. 22-1-119.3 (3)(c), (d) (no student possession or self-administration of medical marijuana, but school districts must permit the student’s primary caregiver to administer medical marijuana to the student on school grounds, on a school bus or at a school-sponsored event)

C.R.S. 25-1.5-106 (12)(b) (possession or use of medical marijuana in or on school grounds or in a school bus is prohibited)

C.R.S. 25-14-103.5 (boards of education must adopt policies prohibiting tobacco and retail marijuana use on school property)

C.R.S. 25-14-301 (Teen Tobacco Use Prevention Act)

CROSS REFS.: ADC, Tobacco-Free Schools

GBEB, Staff Conduct

GBEC, Drug-Free Workplace

JICH, Drug and Alcohol Use by Students

JICI, Weapons in School

KI, Visitors to Schools

JLCDB*, Administration of Medical Marijuana to Qualified Students
 

Garfield School District No. Re-2, Rifle, Colorado