Parents enrolling their children in Florida schools this year will be faced with a new question on student registration forms: Has the student ever been referred for mental health services?

In Palm Beach County schools, administrators give parents three possible answers to choose from – Yes, No, and Not Known – and follow up with interviews if parents check Yes. In other Florida districts, parents are asked to elaborate if they answer in the affirmative, according to the Palm Beach Post.

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The request is part of a new law crafted in the wake of the deadly school shooting in Parkland, Florida in February – the Marjory Stoneman Douglas Act, named after the high school involved – that also requires districts to ask about students’ criminal history and to station a police officer on every campus.

But what the new law doesn’t stipulate is how schools ask the question about mental health or what to do with the answers, a situation that’s raising red flags with many parents, teachers and mental health experts.

“That causes a problem for me,” Lyman High School psychology teacher Cade Resnick told the Orlando Sentinel. “I’m not in favor of forcing a child or parent to answer the question because that could follow the child further down the line for something that may or may not be permanent.”

Mental health advocates contend the new law raises a lot of questions that have so far gone unanswered, such as what exactly constitutes mental health services or referrals, whether a yes response remains in a student’s file indefinitely, how a yes response might impact students pursuing college or careers in law enforcement or the military, and what, if anything, schools will do to ensure the information remains confidential.

Alisa LaPolt, executive director of the National Alliance on Mental Illness Florida, told the Palm Beach Post the simple answer to the most pressing questions is “We just don’t know.”

“We’re in new territory,” she said.

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Even administrators like Palm Beach County Deputy Superintendent Keith Oswald admits “there’s no exact script” for responding to students who divulge a history of mental health treatment.

In Palm Beach County schools, a yes response will prompt front office staff to flag a person designated by the principal – “most likely a school counselor” – to investigate further, Oswald said.

“They would then have a private conversation to gather more information that they would log and keep that confidential,” Oswald told the Post.

It remains unclear who would have access to the information, or what the district is doing to protect students’ privacy to ensure it’s not used against them.

“We’ll provide training. There’s a protocol we’re going to provide staff we’ll follow,” he said. “Obviously, there’s no exact script. We want to be respectful of the parent and the privacy.”

LaPolt noted that the federal Family Education Rights and Privacy Act prohibit schools from sharing student records without permission from parents or students, but pointed out that the law makes exceptions for police and school officials, among others.

“That’s a concern I’ve heard from a couple of parents,” she said. “My advice to parents is to ask those questions to the school district and to the school.”