The Jefferson Parish school district is requesting up to $4 million from the school board to install cameras in all 327 of its special education classrooms in order to comply with a new law that adds extra protections for public school students with disabilities and requires districts to update their seclusion and restraint policies.

Under Act 479, every classroom for students with disabilities in Louisiana must have microphone-equipped cameras up and running by February 2026. District officials asked at the October school board meeting to use funding school systems received from the state under a 2024 law to pay for the cameras.

The new legislation, authored by Rep. Shane Mack, R-Livingston, further restricts when and how staff can physically restrain students with disabilities or pla

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