Senate Bill 187 chapter 736 and California Education Code 32280 mandates that each school district and school site is responsible for the overall writing and development of comprehensive school safety plans for schools operating kindergarten and any of grades 1 to 12. This mandatory requirement went into effect March 1, 2000.

Unfortunately, most administrators at the site do not have the technical expertise to prepare these plans and are so often strapped for time that completing them is nearly impossible. Please see the requirements below.

DPREP, LLC will come to your school site and assist your staff in gaining compliance with Senate Bill 187 and provide consulting services and the expertise necessary to produce an outstanding document to aid your school in its emergency preparedness and to comply with all of the regulations and state mandates.

Please directly contact Jeffrey Solomon, our Division Chief of School Operations for further information and for a quote for your Comprehensive School Site Safety Plan.
Jeffrey Solomon: 866-284-4933, ext 0
jsolomon@dprep.com

EDUCATION CODE 32280
On October 6, 1997 Senate Bill 187, chapter 736, was signed into law by Governor Wilson and became EC 32280. This bill, referred to as the Comprehensive School Site Safety Plan, provides that each school District and County office of education is responsible for the overall writing and development of comprehensive school site safety plans for its schools operating kindergarten and any of grades1 to 12.

Required Elements:
Each school site safety plan shall include the following elements --

1. An assessment of the current status of school or school related crime for each school site:
2. Identification of appropriate strategies and programs designed to maintain a high level of school safety and development of the following procedures for compliance with existing laws related to school safety:
Child Abuse Reporting Procedures
Disaster procedures, routine and emergency with provisions for pupils with disabilities.
Policies related to suspension, expulsion or mandatory expulsion and the other school designated serious acts which would lead to suspension or expulsion.
Procedures regarding teacher notification of dangerous students pursuant to EC 49079.
Sexual harassment policy pursuant to EC 212.6(b).
Provisions of any schoolwide dress code, established pursuant to EC 35183, that prohibits pupils from wearing "gang related apparel," if the school has adopted such a dress code.
Procedures for safe ingress and egress to and from school. Applies to pupils parents and school employees.
A safe and orderly environment conducive to learning.
Rules and procedures on school discipline adopted pursuant to Education Code sections 35291 and 35291.5.
Procedures for reporting hate crimes.

COMPLIANCE ISSUES
in order to ensure compliance, each school shall forward its completed planned to its respective school district office or County office of education for approval. In addition, each school shall meet all of the following requirements:
comprehensive school safety plans shall be written and developed by each school site council established pursuant to EC 520124 and 52852, unless delegated to a school safety planning committee.
If delegated, the school site safety committee shall be made up of the following members: principal or designee, teacher representative of the recognized certificated employees Association, a parent of an attending student, classified employee of the recognized classified employee organization and other members if desired.
The school site council, or if delegated, the school safety committee shall consult with a representative from a law enforcement agency regarding the writing and development of the comprehensive school safety plan.
Each school shall adopt its a comprehensive school site safety plan by March 1, 2000, and shall review and update by March 1 and every year thereafter.
Before final adoption of the plan, a public meeting shall be held by the school site council or school safety planning committee at the school site to allow for public input.
Each school district or County office of education shall notify the State Department Of Education by October 15, 1998 of any school that fails to develop a comprehensive school site safety plan.
Commencing July 2000 and every July they are after each school shall report on the status of its school site safety plan in the annual school accountability report card pursuant to Education Code Sections 33126 and 35256.
Note: if a small school district -- less than 2501 ADA -- develops a districtwide comprehensive school site safety plan that is applicable to each school site, that district shall not be required to utilize a school site council or school safety planning committee in the development of the plan.