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                          HOUSE BILL 1838

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State of Washington      57th Legislature     2001 Regular Session

By Representatives Lovick, Lambert, O'Brien, Ballasiotes, Hatfield, Cooper, Dickerson, Edwards and Darneille

Read first time 02/06/2001.  Referred to Committee on Criminal Justice & Corrections.

Providing for a study and recommendations on school mapping.

    AN ACT Relating to school mapping; and creating a new section.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF WASHINGTON:

NEW SECTION. Sec. 1.  (1) The legislature finds that school mapping would:

    (a) Protect all students in Washington;

    (b) Help schools and emergency response teams in emergencies like the recent Columbine, Colorado, shootings;

    (c) Help officers on the ground to know how a school is laid out in an emergency, since some schools are so complex that when an officer arrives at the school, the officer may be unable to determine where a potential gunman is located; and

    (d) Be used for any potential crisis situation.

    (2) As used in this section, school mapping includes:

    (a) Mapping out the physical structures of all schools in case of an emergency;

    (b) Taking aerial shots from the air to understand the physical complexity of a school;

    (c) Photographing the school from the air so the officers on the ground will know just how the school is laid out in case of an emergency;

    (d) Giving an officer as much information about the school layout as possible by creating a centralized data base for school layouts; and

    (e) Providing for information sharing between the schools and emergency response teams.

    (3) The Washington association of sheriffs and police chiefs shall study and determine the feasibility and costs of:

    (a) Completing a school map for all K-12 schools within the state;

    (b) Including all school maps on a computer disk;

    (c) Providing all patrol cars with a mounted computer so that the officer can use the computer disk to view pictures of the layout of each school, including a blueprint of the school, an aerial photo, and a photo of each school room; and

    (d) Providing for maintenance of the computer disks by the Washington association of sheriffs and police chiefs.

    (4) The Washington association of sheriffs and police chiefs shall submit a report on the study and recommendations to the legislature by January 1, 2002.

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