Florida Senate - 2012                        COMMITTEE AMENDMENT
       Bill No. SB 1886
       
       
       
       
       
       
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                    Senate             .             House              
                   Comm: WD            .                                
                  02/01/2012           .                                
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       The Committee on Education Pre-K - 12 (Wise) recommended the
       following:
       
    1         Senate Amendment 
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    3         Delete lines 97 - 123
    4  and insert:
    5         (4)(a) Each district school board shall enter into
    6  agreements with the county sheriff’s office and local police
    7  department specifying guidelines for ensuring that acts that
    8  pose a serious threat to school safety, whether committed by a
    9  student or adult, are reported to a law enforcement agency.
   10         (b) The agreements must prescribe: include
   11         1. The role of school resource officers, if applicable, in
   12  handling reported incidents that pose a serious threat to school
   13  safety; and,
   14         2. The circumstances and offenses that in which school
   15  officials shall may handle incidents without filing a report
   16  with a law enforcement agency, and a procedure for ensuring that
   17  school personnel properly report appropriate delinquent acts and
   18  crimes.
   19         (c) Zero-tolerance policies do not require the reporting of
   20  petty acts of misconduct and misdemeanors to a law enforcement
   21  agency, including, but not limited to, disorderly conduct,
   22  disrupting a school function, simple assault or battery, affray,
   23  theft of less than $300, trespassing, and vandalism of less than
   24  $1,000.
   25         (d) The school principal shall ensure that all school
   26  personnel are properly informed of as to their responsibilities
   27  regarding crime reporting, that appropriate delinquent acts and
   28  crimes are properly reported, and that actions taken in cases
   29  with special circumstances are properly managed taken and
   30  documented. In addition, the school principal shall certify to
   31  the superintendent, in writing, of the arrest of a student who
   32  is under the jurisdiction of the district school board for an
   33  act that poses a serious threat to school safety.