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California Code, Education Code - EDC § 32289.5

Current as of January 01, 2025 | Updated by Findlaw Staff

(a) The department shall collect, and local educational agencies shall provide, data pertaining to lockdown or multioption response drills conducted at schoolsites within school districts, county offices of education and charter schools providing instructional services to pupils in kindergarten or in any of grades 1 to 12, inclusive.  The data may be collected from a representative sample of schoolsites, with a methodology to be determined by the Superintendent.  Specifically, the department shall collect data including, but not limited to, all of the following information:

(1) The portion of schoolsites conducting drills and the population they serve.

(2) The types of drills performed and their frequency.

(3) Information about staff training in preparation for drills.

(4) Information pertaining to schoolsite evaluations, if any, of the drill impacts.

(5) Information pertaining to staff and parental notifications of drills.

(b) The department shall either conduct, or contract with a nonprofit research entity to conduct, a study that identifies best practices for age-appropriate drills, the effectiveness of lockdown or multioption response drills in schools, and the effects drills have on pupil emotional wellbeing and emergency preparedness.

(c)(1) The department shall submit to the Governor and relevant policy committees of the Legislature on or before November 1, 2021, a report containing data collected pursuant to subdivision (a) and findings and recommendations from the study conducted pursuant to subdivision (b).

(2) Pursuant to Section 10231.5 of the Government Code, this subdivision shall become inoperative on November 1, 2025.

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