Code of Alabama
Ala. Code § 13A-6-80 (2026)
Applicability; Definitions.
✓ official Alabama Legislature (ALISON) text, current July 2026
(a) For purposes of this article, school employee includes a teacher, school administrator, student teacher, safety or resource officer, coach, adult volunteer in a position of authority or any other school employee who has contact with a student in his or her official capacity as a school employee.
(b) For purposes of this article, a student is defined as any person under the age of 19 years enrolled or attending classes in a licensed or accredited public, private, or church school that offers instruction in grades K-12, regardless of whether school is in session.
(Act 2010-497, p. 766, §4; Act 2016-354, §2.)
Notes of Decisions
Cited in 7
cases, 2014–2018 · leading case: Bonds v. State, 205 So. 3d 1270 (Ala. Crim. App. 2015).
Bonds v. State, 205 So. 3d 1270 (Ala. Crim. App. 2015). “” The legislature has not specifically defined “school employee” in the context of § 13A-6-81, but § 13A-6-80 lists persons considered to be “school employees” for purposes of §- 13A-6-81.”
State of Iowa v. Patrick Ryan Nicoletto, 845 N.W.2d 421 (Iowa 2014). “, Ala.Code 13A-6-80 (LexisNexis Supp. 2013) (defining “school employee” to include “a teacher, school administrator, student teacher, safety or resource officer, coach, and other school employee” (emphasis added)); La.”
Pruitt v. State, 272 So. 3d 732 (Ala. Crim. App. 2018). “See § 13A-6-80, Ala. Code 1975 ("For purposes of this article, school employee includes a teacher.”
Bonds v. State, 205 So. 3d 1279 (Ala. 2016). “Although I do not condone the behavior engaged in by the petitioner, Lanice Clifton Bonds, that resulted in his criminal prosecution, I would grant Bonds’s petition for a writ of certiorari to examine the application of §§ 13A-6-80 and -81, Ala. Code 1975, under the facts of…”
Pruitt v. State, 272 So. 3d 732 (Ala. Crim. App. 2018). “See § 13A-6-80, Ala. Code 1975 ("For purposes of this article, school employee includes a teacher.”
State v. Solomon, 274 So. 3d 1017 (Ala. Crim. App. 2018). “See § 13A-6-80, Ala. Code 1975 ('For purposes of this article, school employee includes a teacher .”
State v. Solomon, 274 So. 3d 1017 (Ala. Crim. App. 2018). “See § 13A-6-80, Ala. Code 1975 ('For purposes of this article, school employee includes a teacher .”
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