HB385 Alabama 2019 Session

Summary

Primary Sponsor

Proncey Robertson

Republican

Session

Regular Session 2019

Title

Education, school safety plans, redesignate code red as school lockdown, Secs. 16-1-44, 36-19-10 am'd.

Description

Under current law, each local board of education is required to adopt a comprehensive school safety plan for each school under its authority. This overarching plan must include a specific plan relating to threats to the safety of school property, students, employees, or administrators, referred to as a code red school safety plan.

This bill would redesignate this comprehensive school safety plan as a school emergency operations plan, and would change terms from code red plan to school lockdown safety plan, and from code red drill to school lockdown drill, to help participants understand the reason for the plan and the drills.

This bill would also require a local board of education creating or revising a school emergency operations plan to utilize the four tiers of lockdown alert level currently adopted by the State Superintendent of Education.

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Subjects

Schools