SB 1016

Present law requires e ach LEA, and to the extent applicable, each public charter school, to adopt a comprehensive district-wide school safety plan and building-level school safety plans regarding crisis intervention, emergency response, and emergency management . The plans must follow the template developed by the state-level safety team . The safety team s are required to consider including in the plans the implementation of a mobile panic alert system that is capable of connecting diverse emergency servic es technologies to ensure real-time coordination between multiple first responder agencies and that integrates with local public safety answering point infrastructure to transmit 911 calls and mobile activations. This bill adds a requirement that e ach school safety team include in its school safety plan the process by which administrators must notify parents and legal guardians of students of emergencies and incidents of violence occurring on the grounds of the LEA or school, as well as credible th reats of violence made against the LEA, school, or students or employees of the LEA or school, regardless of whether the parent's or legal guardian's student was involved in, a witness to, a participant in, or a target of , the emergency, incident of violence, or credible threat of violence. The notification process must specify the manner of communication and a general timeline for when parents and legal guardians must be notified. Any disclosure made by an administrator pu rsuant to its school safety plan for purposes of this bill must comply with state and federal privacy laws. Present law requires that the school safety plan template published by the state-level safety team include, among other things, p olicies and procedures for communication with law enforcement officials, parents , and guardians in the event of emergencies and incidents of or threats of violence . This bill adds that the template must also include policies, processes, and procedures to comply with the parental notification requirements that this bill requires to be added to the school safety plans. Present law requires e ach LEA shall adopt a policy to establish a threat assessment team within the LEA . Included among a threat assessment team's duties is d ocument ing all behaviors and incidents deemed to pose a risk to school safety or that result in intervention and shall provide the information to the LEA . This bill adds that an LEA's director of schools or the director of the public charter school, as applicable, or the respective director's designee, must notify parents and legal guardians of stud ents enrolled in the LEA or public charter school of incidents deemed to pose a risk to school safety or that result in intervention that are reported to the LEA or public charter school by the threat assessment team , if the incident would require parental notification pursuant to the school safety plan. The provisions of this bill concerning threat assessment teams take effect on date this bill becomes a law . The remaining provisions of this bill take effect January 1, 2026 .