An emergency safety intervention is the use of seclusion or physical restraint. The use of an emergency safety intervention shall cease as soon as the immediate danger of physical harm and violent action ceases to exist. Emergency safety interventions law sets forth standards for the use of restraint and seclusion to ensure that all Kansas students and staff have a safe learning environment. The standards found in the emergency safety intervention statutes and regulations are required to be followed in all Kansas public school districts and accredited private schools.

Topics on this page:
ESI: Resources
ESI: Law
ESI: Data Collection
ESI: Administrative Review
ESI: Administrative Review Decisions
ESI: Data Analysis

ESI: What All Administrators need to know: https://vimeo.com/847297130/982c92d2b0?share=copy

ESI: What All School Staff need to know: https://vimeo.com/847305952/290d12aab3?share=copy

ESI At-A-Glance (TASN link)

TASN resources
Resources to support local improvement efforts with Emergency Safety Interventions (ESI) are available on the Technical Assistance System Network (TASN) website.

Emergency Safety Intervention Regulations (external link)
Seclusion Evaluation Tool for 2023 regulations (external link (Qualtrics))
 - The purpose of the evaluation tool is to help educators work through various scenarios to determine whether their interventions result in the seclusion of a student.

All emergency safety intervention data is reported in the Kansas Integrated Accountability System (KIAS) application.

Registering for KIAS (PDF). Please follow the instructions in this document to register for access to the KIAS application.
User Manual (PDF)
Reporting Guidance (PDF)
ESI data import template for single building (Excel)
ESI data import template for single multiple buildings (Excel)

Emergency Safety Intervention (ESI) Reporting Periods

An emergency safety intervention is the use of seclusion or physical restraint. The use of an emergency safety intervention shall cease as soon as the immediate danger of physical harm and violent action ceases to exist. Emergency safety interventions law sets forth standards for the use of restraint and seclusion to ensure that all Kansas students and staff have a safe learning environment.

If a parent believes that an emergency safety intervention has been used with the parent’s child in violation of the State Board’s emergency safety intervention regulations or the district’s emergency safety intervention policy, the parent may file a complaint with the local board. The complaint must be filed within 30 days of the date on which the parent was informed of the use of that emergency safety intervention. The local board’s final decision must be in writing and include findings of fact and any corrective action required by the district if the local board deems these actions necessary. The local board’s final decision must be mailed to the parent and KSDE within 30 days of the local board’s receipt of the complaint. To comply with the requirement in K.A.R. 91-42-3(a)(2)(C) to mail the local board’s final decision to KSDE, the local board’s final decision must be mailed to Trish Backman, Special Education and Title Services, KSDE, Landon State Office Building, 900 S.W. Jackson, Suite 102, Topeka, KS 66612 or emailed to tbackman@ksde.org.

Any parent who filed a written complaint with their local board of education regarding the use of emergency safety intervention and is either not satisfied with the local board’s final decision or did not receive a final decision within 30 days, may request an administrative review by the Kansas State Board of Education. The form below may be used to request administrative review. Questions on this process, please contact the Office of General Counsel at ogc@ksde.org or 785-296-3204.

Administrative Review Request Form (PDF)
Emergency Safety Interventions (ESI) Resources (External Link)

Each decision has been redacted to remove the identification of the school district and any personally identifiable information of the student or the student’s parents. The initial file number represents the fiscal year in which the case was filed. Accordingly 2016-ESI-01 signifies the first Emergency Safety Intervention Administrative Review filed in the year 2016. All files are PDF.

2022-ESI-02 (PDF)
2022-ESI-01 (PDF)
2021-ESI-01 (PDF)
2019-ESI-01 (PDF)
2018-ESI-03 (PDF)
2017-ESI-02 (PDF)
2017-ESI-01 (PDF)
2016-ESI-01 (PDF)

KSDE is required to compile reports from schools on the use of emergency safety interventions and provide the results, based on aggregate data, on the KSDE website by January 20 of each year.

2023 Emergency Safety Intervention Longitudinal Data Report (PDF)
2022 Emergency Safety Intervention Longitudinal Data Report (PDF)

2023 Emergency Safety Intervention Data Report (PDF)    Appendix to 2023 Emergency Safety Intervention Data Report (PDF)
2022 Emergency Safety Intervention Data Report (PDF)    Appendix to 2022 Emergency Safety Intervention Data Report (PDF)
2021 Emergency Safety Intervention Data Report (PDF)    Appendix to 2021 Emergency Safety Intervention Data Report (PDF)
2020 Emergency Safety Intervention Data Report (PDF)    Appendix to 2020 Emergency Safety Intervention Data Report (PDF)
2019 Emergency Safety Intervention Data Report (PDF)    Appendix to 2019 Emergency Safety Intervention Data Report (PDF)
2018 Emergency Safety Intervention Data Report (PDF)    Appendix to 2018 Emergency Safety Intervention Data Report (PDF)
2017 Emergency Safety Intervention Data Report (PDF)    Appendix to 2017 Emergency Safety Intervention Data Report (PDF)
2016 Emergency Safety Intervention Data Report (PDF)
Emergency Safety Interventions: An Analysis of Seclusion and Restraint in Kansas Schools (White Paper PDF) (PowerPoint PDF)