Illinois Administrative Code › Title 29 - EMERGENCY SERVICES, DISASTERS, AND CIVIL DEFENSE › Part 305 - ALL HAZARDS CAMPUS EMERGENCY PLAN AND VIOLENCE PREVENTION PLAN › Subpart A - GENERAL › Section 305.20 - Definitions

Current through Register Vol. 48, No. 28, July 12, 2024
"Act" means the Campus Security Enhancement Act of 2008 [110
				  ILCS 12 ].
"Campus" means any higher education facility that offers
				  post-secondary education, including an annex or satellite campus away from the
				  main campus, that includes, but is not limited to, rented classrooms in a
				  commercial building or at a secondary school.
"Campus Emergency Operations Center" or "CEOC" means a
				  location where policy and strategic management decisions are made during a
				  disaster or disaster exercise.
"Campus Emergency Operations Plan" or "CEOP" means the
				  written plan of a higher education institution describing the organization,
				  mission and functions of the higher education institution and supporting
				  services for responding to and recovering from disasters/emergencies and for
				  violence prevention.
"Campus Incident Command" means a system that combines
				  facilities, equipment, personnel, procedures and communications to operate
				  within a common organizational structure and that designates responsibility for
				  the management of assigned resources to effectively accomplish stated campus
				  goals and objectives.
"Campus Incident Commander" means the individual responsible
				  for the management of all campus incident command operations as provided for by
				  law.
"Campus Incident Command Post" means the location at which
				  the primary command functions for the CEOP are executed.
"Campus Violence Prevention Plan" or "CVPP" means the written
				  plan of a higher education institution describing the creation of
				  multi-disciplinary and multi-jurisdictional violence prevention strategies,
				  including formation of a Campus Violence Prevention Committee and
				  implementation of a Campus Threat Assessment Team to address aberrant,
				  dangerous or threatening behavior on campus.
"Concept of Operations" means the overall approach of the
				  higher education institution to the preparation and management of a
				  disaster/emergency, including response efforts and how the higher education
				  institution will implement the concepts and procedures of an incident command
				  system.
"Disaster" means an occurrence or threat of widespread or
				  severe damage, injury or loss of life or property resulting from any natural or
				  technological cause, including but not limited to fire, flood, earthquake,
				  wind, storm, hazardous materials spill or other water contamination requiring
				  emergency action to avert danger or damage, epidemic, air contamination,
				  blight, extended periods of severe and inclement weather, drought, infestation,
				  critical shortages of essential fuels and energy, explosion, riot, hostile
				  military or paramilitary action, or acts of domestic terrorism. [20 ILCS 3305/4
				  ]
"Emergency Management" means the efforts of the higher
				  education institutions to develop, plan, analyze, conduct, provide, implement
				  and maintain programs for disaster/emergency mitigation, preparedness, response
				  and recovery.
"Emergency Services and Disaster Agency" or "ESDA" means the
				  agency by this name, by the name emergency management agency or by any other
				  name that is established by ordinance within a political subdivision to
				  coordinate the emergency management program within that political subdivision
				  and with private organizations, other political subdivisions, the State and
				  federal governments. [20 ILCS 3305/4]
"Exercise" means a planned event realistically simulating a
				  disaster/emergency, conducted for the purpose of evaluating the higher
				  education institution's coordinated emergency management capabilities,
				  including, but not limited to, testing emergency operations plans.
"Full-Scale Exercise" means a time-pressured exercise of a
				  minimum of six functions of the emergency operations plan, involving strategic
				  and tactical decision making, including the direction and control function,
				  activating the emergency operations center and incident command post and
				  deploying responders, equipment and resources to the field.
"Functional Exercise" means a time-pressured exercise of a
				  minimum of four functions of the emergency operations plan, involving strategic
				  and tactical decision making, including the direction and control function,
				  activating the emergency operations center or the incident command post, or
				  both.
"Higher Education Institution" means a public university, a
				  public community college, or an independent, not-for-profit or for-profit
				  higher education institution located in this State. [110 ILCS
				  12/20(a) ]
"IBHE" means the Illinois Board of Higher Education.
"ICCB" means the Illinois Community College Board.
"IEMA" means the Illinois Emergency Management Agency.
"National Incident Management System" or "NIMS" means the
				  comprehensive, national approach to incident management that is applicable at
				  all jurisdictional levels and across functional disciplines. It provides a
				  consistent nationwide template to enable all government, private-sector, and
				  nongovernmental organizations to work together during domestic incidents. (See
				  Homeland Security Presidential Directive-5.)
"Preparedness" means actions taken and programs and systems
				  developed prior to a disaster/emergency to support and enhance response to and
				  recovery from a disaster.
"Recovery" means restoration actions and programs associated
				  with recovering from a disaster/emergency, including, but not limited to,
				  academic recovery, physical/structural recovery, business/fiscal recovery and
				  psychological/emotional recovery for students and campus personnel.
"Response" means the actions taken to address the immediate
				  and short-term effects of a disaster/emergency.
"Table Top Exercise" means a low stress, non-time-pressured,
				  discussion based exercise of a minimum of four functions of the emergency
				  operations plan, including the direction and control function.
"Threat Assessment" means a process of evaluating the actions
				  and conduct of individuals, and the circumstances surrounding those actions and
				  conduct, to uncover any facts or evidence that indicate that violence is likely
				  to be carried out. A threat assessment should occur when a person (or persons)
				  threatens or induces others to commit a violent act or engages in behavior that
				  appears to threaten "targeted violence".
"Targeted Violence" means an incident of physical violence in
				  which both the perpetrator and targets are identified or identifiable prior to
				  the incident.