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: crisis intervention ....

 

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: crisis intervention training for safe-school officers, enhanced requirements for threat assessment teams, requiring law enforcement officers be physically present during active assailant emergency drills, and requiring family reunification plans for all public schools. 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: June 29, 2022, 2:00-3:00 p.m. EDT

PLACE: The webinar registration information will be posted to the page, https://web02.fldoe.org/rules/Default, prior to the rule workshop.

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, Department of Education, [phone] or email [e-mail].

THE PRELIMINARY TEXT OF THE PROPOSED RULE DEVELOPMENT IS:

Will be made available prior to the workshop at: https://web02.fldoe.org/Rules/Default.aspx.