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Security and Safety Assessments

Security and Safety Assessments

State law encourages districts to implement building risk or hazard assessment protocols.

New York Consolidated Laws 2801-a. School safety plans.

  1. The board of education or trustees, as defined in section two of this chapter, of every school district within the state, however created, and every board of cooperative educational services and county vocational education and extension board and the chancellor of the city school district of the city of New York shall adopt and amend a comprehensive district-wide school safety plan and building-level emergency response plans regarding crisis intervention, emergency response and management, provided that in the city school district of the city of New York, such plans shall be adopted by the chancellor of the city school district. Such plans shall be developed by a district-wide school safety team and a building-level emergency response team established pursuant to subdivision four of this section and shall be in a form developed by the commissioner in consultation with the division of criminal justice services, the superintendent of the state police and any other appropriate state agencies. The commissioner, in consultation with the superintendent of the state police, is authorized to develop an appeals process from duplicative requirements of a district-wide school safety plan for school districts having only one school building.
  2. Such comprehensive district-wide safety plan shall be developed by the district-wide school safety team and shall include at a minimum: f. policies and procedures relating to school building security, including where appropriate the use of school safety officers and/or security devices or procedures. 3. A building level emergency response plan, developed by the building-level emergency response team defined in subdivision four of this section, shall be kept confidential, including but not limited to the floor plans, blueprints, schematics or other maps of the school interior, school grounds and road maps of the immediate surrounding area, and shall not be disclosed except to authorized department or school staff, and law enforcement officers, and shall include the following elements: c. floor plans, blueprints, schematics or other maps of the school interior, school grounds and road maps of the immediate surrounding area
Policy Type
Statute
Source
New York Consolidated Laws