Florida Administrative Code › 6 - DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION › 6A - State Board of Education › Chapter 6A-1 - FINANCE AND ADMINISTRATION › Section 6A-1.0018 - School Safety Requirements and Monitoring

Current through Reg. 50, No. 138; July 16, 2024
(1) The purpose of this rule is to set forth
				requirements relating to school safety, reporting, and training. The rule also
				provides notice of the procedures and criteria utilized by the Office of Safe
				Schools to monitor school districts and individual schools for compliance with
				those requirements.
(2)
				Definitions.
(a) "Active threat" means any
				situation that presents an immediate and ongoing danger to the safety of
				students, staff and visitors, such as active assailant, hostage situation, or
				bomb threat.
(b) "After-action
				report" means a document completed following an emergency or fire drill that
				summarizes what took place during the event, analyzes the actions taken by
				participants, and provides areas needing improvement.
(c) "Department" means the Florida Department
				of Education.
(d) "Discharge" means
				to fire a gun or firearm.
(e)
				"Discipline" means a safe-school officer receiving a behavior-related official
				reprimand.
(f) "Dismissal" means a
				safe-school officer is permanently relieved of his position. Dismissal or
				termination is involuntary and initiated by the employer, including firings or
				other removals for cause.
(g)
				"Emergency drill" means a method of testing emergency plans and responses to
				incidents other than fire, including active threats, natural disasters, severe
				weather, hazardous materials, reunification, and other critical incident
				scenarios.
(h) "Florida Safe
				Schools Assessment Tool" or "FSSAT" means the site security risk assessment
				tool used by school officials at each school district and public school site in
				the state, including charter schools, to conduct security assessments, as
				provided in Section 1006.1493, F.S.
(i) "FortifyFL" means the mobile suspicious
				activity reporting tool that allows students and members of the community to
				report information anonymously concerning unsafe, potentially harmful,
				dangerous, violent, or criminal activities, or threats of such activities to
				law enforcement or school officials as described in Section
				943.082, F.S.
(j) "Law enforcement officer" means the
				persons identified in Section
				943.10(1),
				F.S.
(k) "Office" means the
				Department's Office of Safe Schools.
(l) "Safe-school officer" means a school
				resource officer, a school-safety officer, a school guardian, or a school
				security guard, as identified in Sections
				1006.12(1)-(4),
				F.S.
(m) "School" means a public
				K-12 school, including a charter school, with a Master School Identification
				Number (MSID) number as provided under Rule
				6A-1.0016, F.A.C., but does not
				include:
1. Settings where instruction is
				provided in a county jail or state prison, in a Department of Juvenile Justice
				facility or program, in a hospital, or while a student is homebound;
2. Schools that provide only prekindergarten
				or adult education;
3. Technical
				centers under Section
				1004.91, F.S.
A list of schools meeting this definition will be provided to
				  the School Safety Specialist annually by July 1. "School" also includes the
				  Florida Virtual School (Section
				  1002.37, F.S.), the Florida
				  School for the Deaf and the Blind (Section
				  1002.36, F.S.), and
				  Developmental Research (Laboratory) Schools (Section
				  1002.32, F.S.). These entities
				  also function as "school districts" as defined in paragraph (2)(p) of this
				  rule.
(n) "School
				administrator" means the school personnel identified in Section
				1012.01(3),
				F.S.
(o) "School day" means any
				day, including a partial day, where students are physically present at school
				for instructional purposes, as defined by Section
				1011.60(2),
				F.S., and Rule 6A-1.045111, F.A.C.
(p) "School district" or "district" means a
				Florida school district or district school board, the Florida Virtual School
				(Section 1002.37, F.S.), the Florida
				School for the Deaf and the Blind (Section
				1002.36, F.S.), and
				Developmental Research (Laboratory) Schools (Section
				1002.32, F.S.), and universities
				or Florida College System institutions that sponsor a charter school (Section
				1002.33(5),
				F.S.).
(q) "School safety
				specialist" means the district school superintendent's designee per Section
				1006.07(6)(a),
				F.S., responsible for the oversight of all aspects of school safety and
				security within the school district and who is a school administrator or a law
				enforcement officer.
(r) "SESIR"
				means School Environmental Safety Incident Reporting, as identified in Rule
				6A-1.0017, F.A.C.
(s) "Suspected deficiency" means that there
				is at least some evidence that a district or school is not acting in compliance
				with the safety requirements set forth in this rule.