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A241
ASSEMBLY, No. 241
STATE OF NEW JERSEY
222nd LEGISLATURE
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PRE-FILED FOR INTRODUCTION IN THE 2026 SESSION
Sponsored by:
Assemblyman JOHN V. AZZARITI JR., M.D.
District 39 (Bergen)
SYNOPSIS
���� Requires State Police to maintain 24-hour hotline for
receiving anonymous tips regarding potential threats to school safety and
security.
CURRENT VERSION OF TEXT
���� Introduced Pending Technical Review by Legislative
Counsel.
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An Act
concerning the reporting of school safety threats and supplementing
chapter 2 of Title 53 of the New Jersey Statutes.
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Be It
Enacted
by the Senate and General Assembly of
the State of New Jersey:
���� 1.��� a.� The Division of
State Police in the Department of Law and Public Safety shall maintain a
24-hour toll-free hotline for receiving anonymous tips, by means of telephone
or text messaging, regarding potential threats to school safety and security.�
The hotline shall allow students, parents, school staff members, and the public
to anonymously report information about unsafe, suspicious, potentially
harmful, dangerous, or criminal activities in schools, or the threat of those
activities including, but not limited to, incidents of violence, assaults,
suicide threats, and bullying.� The Division of State Police shall establish
methods and procedures to ensure that the identity of the reporting parties
remains unknown to all persons and entities, except in instances where the
reporting party voluntarily discloses the individual�s identity and verifies
that the individual�s identity may be shared with law enforcement officers and
school officials.
���� b.��� The Division of State
Police shall, as appropriate, share information received through the hotline
with the applicable local law enforcement agencies and the superintendent of
schools or the chief school administrator of a nonpublic school in order to facilitate
prompt investigation and intervention.
���� c.��� The Division of State
Police, in consultation with the Department of Education, shall ensure that
information about the hotline is distributed to all public and nonpublic
schools in the State for dissemination to students and their families.
���� 2.��� This act shall take
effect on the first day of the third month next following the date of
enactment.
STATEMENT
���� This bill requires the Division
of State Police to maintain a 24-hour toll-free hotline for receiving anonymous
tips, via telephone or text message, regarding potential threats to school
safety and security.� The purpose of the hotline is to allow students, parents,
school staff members, and the public to anonymously report information about
unsafe, suspicious, potentially harmful, dangerous, or criminal activities in
schools, or the threat of those activities, including, but not limited to,
incidents of violence, assaults, suicide threats, and bullying.� Under the
bill, the identity of the person who reports information to the hotline is to
remain unknown, except when the reporting individual voluntarily discloses the
individual�s identity and verifies that the individual�s identity can be shared
with law enforcement officers and school officials.
���� The bill requires the State
Police to share information received through the hotline with the applicable
local law enforcement agencies and the superintendent of schools or the chief
school administrator of a nonpublic school in order to facilitate prompt
investigation and intervention.� Under the bill, information about the hotline
is to be distributed to all public and nonpublic schools in the State for
dissemination to students and their families.