School Safety Requirements and Monitoring

 

DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION

State Board of Education

RULE NO.:RULE TITLE:

6A-1.0018School Safety Requirements and Monitoring

NOTICE OF CHANGE

Notice is hereby given that the following changes have been made to the proposed rule in accordance with subparagraph 120.54(3)(d)1., F.S., published in Vol. 48 No. 188, September 27, 2022 issue of the Florida Administrative Register.

In response to public comment the rule is amended as follows:

(1) through (9) No change.

(10) Threat assessment teams.

(a) through (f) No change.

(g) Reporting. Each district must ensure that all threat assessment teams in the district report to the Office on the team’s activities during the previous school year. The district school safety specialist must ensure all schools in the district timely report information required by this paragraph. Information described below is due by October 1 and must be reported using the FSSAT:

1. Beginning in the 2022-23 school year, the total number of threat assessments conducted, disaggregated by the total number of non-threats, the total number of transient threats, the total number of substantive threats, and the sex, race, and grade level of all students assessed by the threat assessment team.

2. Suicide risk assessments must not be included in the overall count of threat assessments. If an identified threat of harm to others is made during a suicide risk assessment, a separate threat assessment must be conducted.

(h) No change.

(11) through (25) No change.