Expanding the Office of School Safety to cover technical colleges and campus safety plans for technical colleges. (FE)

What it would have done

Summary by the Legislative Reference Bureau, the Legislature's nonpartisan drafting office. It's their wording, not ours.

Under current law, there is the Office of School Safety in the Department of Justice. The office must create model practices for school safety, compile blueprints and interactive critical mapping data of schools for law enforcement agencies, award grants to schools to improve school safety and to create interactive critical mapping data, and train school staff on school safety. This bill expands the office to include technical colleges. Under the bill, the office creates model practices for campus safety, compiles blueprints and critical mapping data of campuses for law enforcement agencies, awards grants to improve campus safety and to create interactive critical mapping data, and trains staff on campus safety.

Current law requires each school board and the governing body of each private school to have in effect a school safety plan and to submit a copy of the most recent blueprints or critical incident mapping data of the school to each local law enforcement agency with jurisdiction over the school and to the Office of School Safety. The bill requires each technical college to have a campus safety plan that includes 1) an individualized safety plan for each campus building and facility that is regularly occupied by students; 2) general guidelines specifying procedures for emergency prevention and mitigation, preparedness, response, and recovery; and 3) guidelines and procedures to address campus violence and attacks, threats of campus violence and attacks, fire, weather-related emergencies, and intruders. The technical college district board determines who is required to receive campus safety plan training and the frequency of the training. Each technical college must submit blueprints or interactive critical mapping data for campus buildings and facilities to local law enforcement agencies and to the Office of School Safety. Campus safety plans must be filed annually with the Office of School Safety and must be reviewed and approved at least once every three years.

Who's behind it

Van Wanggaard, a Republican, is its author⁠.

7 more lawmakers signed on in support⁠.