Florida Senate - 2018                        COMMITTEE AMENDMENT
       Bill No. SB 7026
       
       
       
       
       
       
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                    Senate             .             House              
                  Comm: RCS            .                                
                  02/28/2018           .                                
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       The Committee on Appropriations (Galvano) recommended the
       following:
       
    1         Senate Amendment (with title amendment)
    2  
    3         Delete lines 996 - 1024
    4  and insert:
    5         943.082 School Safety Awareness Program.—
    6         (1) In collaboration with the Department of Legal Affairs,
    7  the department shall competitively procure a mobile suspicious
    8  activity reporting tool that allows students and the community
    9  to relay information anonymously concerning unsafe, potentially
   10  harmful, dangerous, violent, or criminal activities, or the
   11  threat of these activities, to appropriate public safety
   12  agencies and school officials. As recommended by students of
   13  Marjory Stoneman Douglas, the program shall be named
   14  “FortifyFL.” At a minimum, the department must receive reports
   15  electronically through the mobile suspicious activity reporting
   16  tool that is available on both Android and Apple devices.
   17         (2) The reporting tool must notify the reporting party of
   18  the following information:
   19         (a) That the reporting party may provide his or her report
   20  anonymously.
   21         (b) That if the reporting party chooses to disclose his or
   22  her identity, that information shall be shared with the
   23  appropriate law enforcement agency and school officials;
   24  however, the law enforcement agency and school officials shall
   25  be required to maintain the information as confidential.
   26         (3) Information received by the tool must be promptly
   27  forwarded to the appropriate law enforcement agency or school
   28  official.
   29         (4) Law enforcement dispatch centers, school districts,
   30  schools, and other entities identified by the department shall
   31  be made aware of the mobile suspicious activity reporting tool.
   32         (5) The department, in collaboration with the Division of
   33  Victims Services within the Office of Attorney General and the
   34  Office of Safe Schools within the Department of Education, shall
   35  develop and provide a comprehensive training and awareness
   36  program on the use of the mobile suspicious activity reporting
   37  tool.
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   39  ================= T I T L E  A M E N D M E N T ================
   40  And the title is amended as follows:
   41         Delete lines 93 - 101
   42  and insert:
   43         requiring the Department of Law Enforcement, in
   44         collaboration with the Department of Legal Affairs, to
   45         competitively procure a mobile suspicious activity
   46         tool with certain features; requiring the department
   47         to receive certain electronic reports; requiring the
   48         reporting tool to notify the reporting part of certain
   49         information; requiring the forwarding of certain
   50         information to appropriate law enforcement agencies;
   51         requiring certain entities be made aware of the
   52         reporting tool; requiring the department, in
   53         collaboration with certain entities, to develop and
   54         provide certain training and awareness relating to the
   55         reporting tool; creating