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GANG ACTIVITY
Gang activity shall be defined as any act(s) that furthers gangs or gang-related activities or which
threatens or intimidates another person or disrupts the educational environment on school
premises or during any school-sponsored activity which includes, but is not limited to: (1)
communicating either verbally or non-verbally (hand signs, gestures, handshakes, slogans,
drawings, etc.), to convey membership or affiliation with a gang; (2) defacing school or personal
property with gang-related graffiti, symbols or slogans; (3) requiring payment of protection,
insurance, or otherwise intimidating or threatening any person related to gang activity; (4)
inciting other students to intimidate or to act with physical violence upon any other person
related to gang activity; (5) soliciting others for gang membership; (6) committing any other
illegal act or other violation of the Cumberland County Schools’ policies that relates to gang
activity (i.e. gang-related assault on student).
HARASSMENT - SEXUAL
Repeated unwelcome sexual advances and sexually-motivated physical contact are sexual
harassment.
KIDNAPPING
Confining, restraining or removing from one place to another a person, without his/her or the
victim’s or a minor victim’s parents’ consent, for the purpose of committing a felony; or holding
a victim as hostage or for ransom, or for use as a shield. A parent taking a child in violation of a
court order, although it may be a crime, is not kidnapping for this purpose.
POSSESSION OF A WEAPON
Handling or transferring, whether openly or concealed, without educational permission or
consent, any BB gun, stun gun, air rifle, air pistol, facsimile of a gun, ammunition, knife, ice
pick, dagger, slingshot, leaded cane, loaded cane, sword cane, machete, switchblade knife,
blackjack, metallic knuckles, razors, razor blades, box cutters, and pepper spray or any other
object that can reasonably be considered a weapon or dangerous instrument.
POSSESSION OF CHEMICAL AND DRUG PARAPHERNALIA
Possession or delivery of drug paraphernalia or any other item used for inhaling/ingesting any
controlled substance, narcotic, alcohol or chemical.
POSSESSION OF CONTROLLED SUBSTANCES / SELLING
This offense includes possession or sale by a student of a controlled substance of the N.C.
Controlled Substances Act or any counterfeit controlled substance. This includes, but is not
limited to, marijuana, cocaine, methamphetamine, barbiturate, heroin, mescaline, LSD, codeine,
opium, ecstasy, or any other hallucinogenic drug. Possession shall be defined as the substance
being on the person, in the student’s personal effects, vehicle, locker or desk or in the immediate
control of the student in any amount or in any form. This offense also includes the unauthorized
distribution of any prescription drug.