| Consent opinion regarding the employment of Rebecca Smith Sanders with the Calcasieu Parish School Board while her father, Alvin Smith, serves as a member of the school board. |
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La. R.S. 42:1119B(2)(a)(i) permits the school board to employ an immediate family member of a school board member and the superintendent, provided the family member is certified to teach and teaching in a classroom.
La. R.S. 42:1119C(2) provides that the provisions of this Section shall not prohibit the continued employment of any public employee nor shall it be construed to hinder, alter, or in any way affect normal promotional advancements for such public employee where a member of public employee's immediate family becomes the agency head of such public employee's agency, provided that such public employee has been employed in the agency for a period of at least one year prior to the member of the public employee's immediate family becoming the agency head.
La. R.S. 42:1119D provides a willful violation of this Section shall subject the agency head, member of the governing authority, the public employee having authority to hire and fire the employee, the immediate supervisor of the employee, whether or not such persons are immediate family members of the employee, and such employee, to disciplinary action and penalties provided by this Chapter.
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Adopt and publish the Consent Opinion.
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| Assigned Attorney: |
Tracy Barker |
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