School safety: school security departments: contracted private licensed security agencies.

Plain English Breakdown

The bill summary text does not provide specific details about the types of weapons covered beyond handcuffs, pepper spray, batons, and firearms.

School Safety Rules for Private Security Companies

The bill requires school districts and local educational agencies to establish rules about weapon usage and roles when hiring private security companies after January 1, 2027.

What This Bill Does

• Requires the governing board of a school district that establishes a security department or enters into a contract with a private licensed security agency on or after January 1, 2027 to specify rules regarding weapon usage and roles for ensuring student and staff safety.

Who It Names or Affects

• School districts establishing a security department.
• Local educational agencies entering into contracts with private licensed security agencies on or after January 1, 2027.

Terms To Know

local educational agency

A school district or other organization responsible for providing education services to students in a specific area.

private licensed security agency

A company that provides security services and is legally allowed to do so by the state.

Limits and Unknowns

• The bill does not specify what happens if these rules are not followed.
• It only applies to contracts signed on or after January 1, 2027.
• Details about how weapons will be used and specific roles for security personnel must still be decided by each school district.

Official Summary Text

SB 1355, as amended, Smallwood-Cuevas.
Healing arts: chiropractic corporations: application.
School safety: school security departments: contracted private licensed security agencies.
Existing law authorizes the governing board of a school district to establish a security department under the supervision of a chief of security as designated by, and under the direction of, the superintendent of the school district and to employ personnel to ensure the safety of school district personnel and pupils, as provided. Existing law authorizes the governing board of a school district to contract with a private licensed security agency to ensure the safety of school district personnel and pupils and the security of the real and personal property of the school district when the personnel normally required to provide those services fail to do so because of an emergency or when such an emergency necessitates additional security services, as provided.
This
bill would require the governing board of a school district that establishes a security department, and the governing board or body of a local educational agency, as defined, that enters into a contract on or after January 1, 2027, with a private licensed security agency to provide school security services, to (1) specify the parameters on the use of weapons, including, but not limited to, handcuffs, pepper spray, batons, and firearms, on a school campus and (2) specify the roles and responsibilities of school administrators, school security department personnel, and contracted school security officers for purposes of ensuring the safety of personnel and pupils, consistent with assigning school administrators primary responsibility for deescalation.
Existing law, the Chiropractic Act, enacted by an initiative measure, provides for the licensure of chiropractors and registration of chiropractic corporations, as well as the regulation of both, by the State Board of Chiropractic Examiners. Existing law requires a chiropractic corporation applicant to supply to the board all necessary and pertinent documents and information requested by the board concerning the applicant’s plan of operations. Existing law authorizes the board to provide forms of application for these applicants.
This bill would instead require the board to provide forms of application to chiropractic corporation applicants.

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