To set forth requirements relating to school safety and to define certain safety measures that schools are expected to meet. Amendments will address changes as a result of the need to make training available for parents ....

 

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 changes as a result of the need to make training available for parents and guardians on the proper use, and consequences for misuse, of FortifyFL, the mobile suspicious activity reporting tool.

SUBJECT AREA TO BE ADDRESSED: Office of Safe Schools requirements for districts to provide information to parents and guardians of students on FortifyFL, including the consequences for making a threat or false report, within the first 5 days of each school year. Additional changes to school safety and monitoring requirements may also be considered.

RULEMAKING AUTHORITY: 1001.02(1), (2)(n), 1001.11(9), 1001.212(10), F.S.

LAW IMPLEMENTED: 943.082, 1001.11(9), 1001.212(10), 1006.07(2)(m), (3), 1006.13(3)(b), F.S.

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

DATE AND TIME: October 18, 2024, 11 a.m. to 12 p.m. EDT, or until business is concluded, whichever is earlier

PLACE: https://events.teams.microsoft.com/event/ec980851-5a84-48eb-a530-01bf86c8a0bb@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: Julie Collins, Office of Safe Schools, [e-mail]. To comment on this rule development, please go to https://web02.fldoe.org/rules or contact: Chris Emerson, Director, Office of Executive Management, email [e-mail].

THE PRELIMINARY TEXT OF THE PROPOSED RULE DEVELOPMENT IS NOT AVAILABLE.