To set forth requirements relating to school safety and to define certain safety measures that schools are expected to meet. Amendments will address new requirements as a result of recent legislation to include: establishing ....

 

DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION

State Board of Education

RULE NO.:RULE TITLE:

6A-1.0018School Safety Requirements and Monitoring

PURPOSE AND EFFECT: To set forth requirements relating to school safety and to define certain safety measures that schools are expected to meet. Amendments will address new requirements as a result of recent legislation to include: establishing minimum emergency drill policies and procedures related to the timing, frequency, participation, training, notification, accommodations, and responses to threat situations by incident type, school level, school type, and student and school characteristics. The rule must require all types of emergency drills to be conducted no less frequently than on an annual school year basis. Other general matters relating to school safety monitoring, reporting and training, and threat assessment, will also be considered.

SUBJECT AREA TO BE ADDRESSED: Office of Safe Schools procedures for monitoring, reporting, and training.

RULEMAKING AUTHORITY: 1001.02(2)(n), 1001.11(9), 1001.212(14), F.S.

LAW IMPLEMENTED: 1001.11(9), 1001.212(4), (12), (14), (15), 1006.07(4), (6), (7), (9), 1006.12(5), 1006.147, 1006.1493, 1008.386(3), F.S.

A RULE DEVELOPMENT WORKSHOP WILL BE HELD AT THE DATE, TIME AND PLACE SHOWN BELOW:

DATE AND TIME: February 1, 2023, 2:00-3:00 p.m. ET, or upon conclusion of business, whichever is earlier.

PLACE: https://events.teams.microsoft.com/event/935febbe-1958-4e9d-b2ff-962ea2bf9c3c@63bf107b-cb6f-4173-8c1c-1406bb5cb794

THE PERSON TO BE CONTACTED REGARDING THE PROPOSED RULE DEVELOPMENT AND A COPY OF THE PRELIMINARY DRAFT, IF AVAILABLE, IS: Brooks Rumenik, Deputy Director, Office of Safe Schools, Florida Department of Education, [e-mail]. To comment on this rule development workshop, please go to https://web02.fldoe.org/rules or contact: Chris Emerson, Director, Office of Executive Management, [phone] or email [e-mail].

 

THE PRELIMINARY TEXT OF THE PROPOSED RULE DEVELOPMENT IS:

 

Available prior to the workshop at: https://web02.fldoe.org/Rules/Default.aspx.