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September 22, 2023 by FUMPDirector

Parents’ Rights Statements

The Texas Legislature recently passed a bill requiring preschools to publish a notice addressing the rights of families in a preschool program. The list below is presented for your review.

A parent or guardian of a child at a child-care facility has the right to:

  • Enter and examine the program during the facility’s hours of operation without advance notice; 
  • File a complaint against the program; 
  • Review the program’s publicly accessible records; 
  • Review the program’s written records concerning the parent’s or guardian’s child; 
  • Receive from the program the commission’s inspection reports for the program and information about how to access the program’s compliance history online; 
  • Have the program comply with a court order preventing another parent or guardian from visiting or removing the parent’s or guardian’s child; 
  • Be provided the contact information for the division responsible for regulating the program, including the division’s name, address, and phone number; 
  • Inspect any video recordings of an alleged incident of abuse or neglect involving the parent’s or guardian’s child, provided that: 
    • Video recordings of the alleged incident are available; 
    • The parent or guardian of the child is not allowed to retain any part of the video recording depicting a child who is not the parent’s or guardian’s child, and 
    • Before allowing a parent or guardian to inspect a video recording, a program must provide written notice to the parent or guardian of any other child captured in the video recording. 
    • This does not affect the ability of a law enforcement agency or the department to access a video recording as part of an investigation of an incident depicted in the video recording. 
  • Obtain a copy of the program’s policies and procedures; 
  • Review, on the request of the parent or guardian, the facility’s: 
    • staff training records, and 
    • any in-house staff training curriculum used by the facility and 
  • Be free from any retaliatory action by the program for exercising any of the parent’s or guardian’s rights. 
  •  A program shall provide the parent or guardian of the child with a written copy of these no later than September 30, 2023.

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