Current through Register Vol. 50, No. 9, September 20, 2024
A. Each public school principal or school
leader shall have a crisis management and response plan developed jointly with
local law enforcement, fire, public safety, and emergency preparedness
officials, that addresses the immediate response to emergency situations that
may develop in schools. The plan shall seek to utilize resources and
information available through the Louisiana Commission on School and Nonprofit
Security. The principal or school leader shall:
1. submit the crisis management and response
plan to the local superintendent, the LDOE, and the Center for Safe Schools
within the Governor's Office of Homeland Security and Emergency
Preparedness;
2. annually review
the crisis management and response plan, revising as necessary;
a. When preparing or revising the plan,
consult with the district threat assessment team. The principal and the threat
assessment team shall determine whether to consider input from students
enrolled in the school and their parents, faculty and staff, and community
leaders. The principal of a high school shall seek and consider input from the
students enrolled in the school who shall be represented by either the
president of the senior class or the president of the student council and at
least one other responsible student selected by the principal.
b. The district threat assessment team shall
include the local school superintendent, principal(s) from each school, school
facilities staff member, mental health professional, school resource officer,
any ROTC instructor within the LEA, and the emergency preparedness and recovery
point of contact.
c. The plan shall
provide for an all-hazards approach response plan for emergency events,
including any event with a hostage, an active shooter, or a building
lock-down.
3. within the
first 30 days of each school year, conduct a safety drill to rehearse the
plan;
4. not later than seven days
after each drill, submit a written report summarizing the details of the drill
to the local superintendent, who shall comment on the drill to the principal,
and the principal shall consider the comments when revising the plan;
5. be responsible for providing in-service
training pertaining to the plan for all teachers and school employees each
school year. Such training may be incorporated into a meeting or training
session held for another purpose and shall involve local law enforcement, fire,
public safety, and emergency preparedness officials in the preparation and
presentation of the training. The training shall include an active shooter
exercise and shall be reported to the local school superintendent and the
LDOE;
6. provide for notification
of parents, faculty, staff, and local public safety officials in the event of a
shooting or other violent incident or emergency situation;
7. include a cardiac emergency response plan
in accordance with LAC 28:CLVII. (Bulletin 135);
8. provide that classroom doors with locks
shall be in accordance with all fire safety standards and shall remain locked
during instructional time. Locked doors shall not obstruct egress.
9. The local school superintendent shall make
an annual report to the public school governing authority on the status of the
plan of each school under the governing authority's
jurisdiction.
C. The school shall
establish and use procedures for reporting accidents to parents and/or the
central office.
D. In the absence
of a principal or school leader, another individual(s) at the school shall be
delegated the necessary authority to use emergency procedures.
E. Procedures for the cancellation of school
shall be established, communicated to students, teachers, and parents, and
followed when necessary.
F. The
school shall establish procedures for special calls to police, fire
departments, and hospitals, and practice drills shall be used to ensure the
effectiveness of the procedure.
G.
The school shall establish procedures for the evacuation of the building in the
event of fire, severe weather conditions, or bomb threats. Practice drills
shall be used to ensure the effectiveness of the procedure.
H. The school will establish procedures that
detail the roles and responsibilities of each school employee and each local
and state public safety and emergency preparedness office, including the
relevant coordination agreements, services, and security measures of a
school.
I. The governing authority
of each public school will, as part of its school crisis management plan,
develop resources, policies, procedures, and guidelines to address the
potential of violence and terrorism in the schools under its jurisdiction.
1. Any full- or part-time administrator,
teacher, counselor, bus operator, or other school employee who learns of a
threat of violence or threat of terrorism, whether through oral, written, or
electronic communication, shall immediately report the threat to a local law
enforcement agency and, if the employee is not the school administrator, to the
school administrator.
2. Upon being
informed of the threat, the school administrator shall make reasonable efforts
to attempt to inform all persons who are targets of the threat and shall take
all necessary measures to protect lives and ensure safety.
3. The school administrator shall make
reasonable efforts to attempt to notify the appropriate personnel within the
school district administration.
4.
The school administrator and the school district administrator shall then
determine if risk is imminent for any other persons as a result of the threat,
and if so, notify and take reasonable measures to protect lives and ensure
safety.
5. The school administrator
and the school district administrator shall determine whether to notify parents
of the students at the school.
6.
Where the district attorney, upon receiving report of a credible threat made by
a student, does not file a petition during the seven days after receiving the
report from a law enforcement agency, the student who is the subject of the
complaint and investigation shall be permitted to return to school unless the
student is charged with assault on a teacher or battery on a teacher.
7. The school administration shall permit a
student who is the subject of a complaint and investigation to return to school
if, at any point after an investigation and prior to a hearing, the threat is
determined not to be credible, unless the student is charged with assault on a
teacher or battery on a teacher. The school administrator shall notify any
person who was a target of the threat at least two school days prior to the
student's return and may conduct a search of the student or student property
for weapons upon the student's return.
8. If the person is not a student, the
individual shall not be permitted to be within five hundred feet of any school
until deemed by a healthcare professional in a formal medical or mental health
evaluation to not be a danger to self or others.
9. After such a determination, the individual
shall not be permitted in a school unless the school administrator has been
notified of the intent to visit the school and given consent. The administrator
shall provide at least two school days' notice regarding the visit to any
person in the school who was directly threatened by the individual. The school
administrator may deny such an individual the right to visit the
school.
J. The local
superintendent or chief charter school officer may dismiss any or all schools
due to emergency situations, including any actual or imminent threat to public
health or safety which may result in loss of life, disease, or injury; an
actual or imminent threat of natural disaster, force majeure, or catastrophe
which may result in loss of life, injury or damage to property; and, when an
emergency situation has been declared by the governor, the state health
officer, or the governing authority of the school.
K. Bleeding control kits shall be placed in
easily accessible locations in each school.
1. The principal shall ensure that designated
employees are trained in the proper use of a bleeding control kit and in
traumatic injury response.
2. The
kits shall contain, at a minimum, a tourniquet, a hemostatic bleeding control
dressing, an emergency trauma dressing, one pair of nitrile gloves, and an
instruction card.
3. The kit shall
be annually inspected, with materials replaced as needed according to product
expiration dates.
AUTHORITY NOTE:
Promulgated in accordance with
R.S.
17:6,
17:154.1,
R.S.
29:726.5, et seq.,
R.S.
40:1137.3, and
17:416.16.
