S-1381.1

SUBSTITUTE SENATE BILL 5252


State of Washington	64th Legislature	2015 Regular Session

By Senate Early Learning & K-12 Education (originally sponsored by Senators Dammeier, McAuliffe, King, Litzow, and Angel)

READ FIRST TIME 02/04/15.

AN ACT Relating to a pilot program to implement regional school safety and security centers in three educational service districts; creating new sections; and providing an expiration date.

NEW SECTION. Sec. 1. The legislature finds that school personnel are often the first responders when there is a violent threat or natural or man-made disaster at a school. The legislature further finds that school personnel need to be trained to intervene and provide assistance during these emergency incidents. The legislature recognizes an educational service district has developed a model for a regional school safety and security center, which can provide this type of training.

NEW SECTION. Sec. 2. (1) During the 2015-2017 biennium, three educational service districts shall work with the educational service district that has developed a model for a regional school safety and security center to implement a pilot program to create and improve regional school safety and security centers in each of these four educational service districts.

(a) Establishment of a network of school safety coordinators for the educational service districts, which shall focus on prevention planning, intervention, mitigation, crisis response, and community recovery regarding emergency incidents in schools;

(b) Collaboration with the educational service district that developed the model for a regional school safety and security center to adopt its model for a regional school safety and security center;

(c) Creation of technology-based systems that enable more efficient and effective communication between schools and emergency response entities, including local law enforcement, local fire department, and state and federal responders;

(d) Provision of technology support to improve communication and data management between schools and emergency response entities;

(e) Ongoing training of school personnel and emergency responders to establish a system for preventative identification, intervention strategies, and management of risk behaviors;

(f) Development of a professional development to train school personnel as first responders until the arrival of emergency responders; and

(g) Building a collaborative relationship between educational service districts participating in the pilot program and the office of the superintendent of public instruction and the school safety advisory committee and focusing on expanding regional school safety and security centers to all of the other educational service districts.