Terms Used In Louisiana Revised Statutes 17:1234

  • Document: means any written or otherwise tangible material intended to be or actually used as a part of or any evidence of the work history of any school employee including but not limited to any and all reports, comments, reprimands, correspondence, memoranda, evaluations, observations, and grievances relative to a particular school employee. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 17:1233
  • Personnel file: means the file or files which contain the cumulative collection of any and all documents maintained by the school system with respect to each individual school employee. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 17:1233
  • School system: means a parish or city school system. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 17:1233

A.  Each document concerning a school employee shall be placed in the employee’s personnel file within a reasonable time and no document, except those resulting from routine recordkeeping, shall be placed in a school employee’s personnel file by any school system employee, unless and until that school employee is presented with the original document and a copy thereof prior to its filing.

B.  Upon receipt of the original document and copy of the same, the school employee shall sign the original document as an acknowledgement of the receipt of the copy of the document.  Such signature shall not be construed as an agreement to the contents of the document.

Acts 1987, No. 174, §1.