Rules for Defining Incidents

Use the following rules when defining discipline incidents using Incident Management. Please note that the order in which the elements below are listed is the order in which they should be input when entering an incident.

Incident Type

State reportable incidents must be associated with the incident type NM State Reporting^.

Incident Date

State reportable incidents must have an incident date that falls within the current reporting year.

Offender

At least one student offender must be defined for each incident. Multiple offenders per incident are allowed.

Behavior

At least one state reportable behavior (infraction) must be defined for at least one of the student offenders. Multiple behaviors are allowed per offender; however one of the behaviors must be the primary behavior. While there may be multiple behaviors per incident, only one can be marked as the primary behavior.
Note: Once you have selected a behavior in the incident elements portion of the page, the behavior MUST be dragged to the offender to link the elements correctly. Once this is done, the behavior will still appear under "incident elements".

Action

At least one state reportable action (response) must be associated to the state reportable behavior.
Note: After you create an action in response to a behavior, you must drag the action to the behavior to associate the two elements. After the action is associated with the behavior, it no longer appears under the Incident Elements heading.

Object

Objects are conditionally necessary for New Mexico state reporting. If using an object code is required (due to the selected behavior code implying the use/presence of a weapon/object), they must be associated with each offender. Objects are used to define the weapon used by an offender.
Note: After you create an object, you must drag the object to the participant to associate the two elements. After the object is associated with the participant, it also remains under the Incident Elements heading.

Victim

It is not necessary to define victims to report an incident, but if a victim is defined, the victim subcode must be selected (student, teacher, administrator, etc.).

Location

Location codes are NOT necessary for New Mexico state reporting. Location codes can be set up and used, but they will not be reported in the New Mexico Discipline domain extracts.

Witness

Witnesses are not reported.

Reporter

Reporters are not reported.

Attribute

Incident attributes are mandatory for New Mexico state reporting.
Select the checkboxes to all attributes that apply to the incident.