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Texas Local Government Code - LOC GOV'T § 85.024. School Safety Meetings

Current as of January 01, 2024 | Updated by Findlaw Staff

(a) The sheriff of a county with a total population of less than 350,000 in which a public school is located shall call and conduct semiannual meetings to discuss:

(1) school safety;

(2) coordinated law enforcement response to school violence incidents;

(3) law enforcement agency capabilities;

(4) available resources;

(5) emergency radio interoperability;

(6) chain of command planning; and

(7) other related subjects proposed by a person in attendance at the meeting.

(b) The sheriff of a county to which this section applies in which more than one public school is located is only required to hold one semiannual meeting described by Subsection (a). This subsection does not require public schools located within the same county to adopt the same school safety policies.

(c) The following persons shall attend a meeting called under Subsection (a):

(1) the sheriff or the sheriff's designee;

(2) the police chief of a municipal police department in the county or the police chief's designee;

(3) each elected constable in the county or the constable's designees;

(4) each police chief of a school district's police department or school district security coordinator from each school district located in the county;

(5) a representative of the Department of Public Safety assigned to the county;

(6) a representative of each other state agency with commissioned peace officers assigned to the county;

(7) a person appointed to a command staff position at an emergency medical service in the county;

(8) a person appointed to a command staff position at a municipal emergency medical service in the county;

(9) a person appointed to a command staff position at a fire department in the county;

(10) the superintendent or the superintendent's designee of each school district located in the county;

(11) the person who serves the function of superintendent, or that person's designee, in each open-enrollment charter school located in the county; and

(12) any other person the sheriff considers appropriate.

(d) The sheriff shall invite any federal law enforcement official serving in the county to attend the meeting.

(e) As soon as practicable after a meeting under Subsection (a), the sheriff shall submit a report to the Texas School Safety Center identifying the attendees of the meeting and the subjects discussed. The Texas School Safety Center shall maintain the report and make it publicly available on the center's Internet website. The center may not make publicly available and shall redact any parts of a report that the center determines may expose a safety vulnerability of a school district facility.

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