Safe Schools

RCW 28A.320.128
Notice and Disclosure Policies, Threats of Violence, Student Conduct, Immunity for Good Faith Notice, Penalty

An excerpt from Assessing Student Threats: A Handbook for Implementing the Salem-Keizer System, Chapter 12 which is co-authored by John Van Dreal and Martin Speckmaier.

Campuses of higher education (post secondary) have certainly been targets for campus rampage shootings. Furthermore, community colleges, universities and other colleges also experience situations of workplace violence and domestic violence. Thus, higher-education security departments should consider a threat assessment and management system that is timely, effective and defensible.

The Superintendent of Public Instruction issued an informational memorandum to all Washington School District Superintendents and School Principals. Effective September 1, 2006, House Bill 2101 created a new amendment which created a sex offender notification obligations for Sheriffs and School Principals. Please read a copy of the memo below:

SUPERINTENDENT OF PUBLIC INSTRUCTION
May 15, 2006
( ) Action Required
(X) Informational

School bus drivers are the first and last school employees to see our children on a daily basis. Ultimately children in school buses with their bus drivers are an extension of the school in which they belong. In any given day a bus driver with our students could encounter:

RCW 28A.320.125

Safe School Plans, Development, Progress Reports, Rules