Federal Law Already Requires What SB2876 Provides

In the spring of 2025, a group of elementary school students was shadowboxing in a gymnasium in downstate Illinois. One student was struck, and several others were involved in the incident. When the dust settled, only some were disciplined — suspended from school based on video evidence from the building’s surveillance cameras. The parents of the suspended children were alarmed and insisted they had been treated unfairly. They asked to see the video.

They were told no.