Sponsored by:
Senator ANTHONY R. BUCCO
District 25 (Morris and Somerset)
Senator JOSEPH A. LAGANA
District 38 (Bergen and Passaic)
Assemblyman GARY S. SCHAER
District 36 (Bergen and Passaic)
Assemblyman CLINTON CALABRESE
District 36 (Bergen and Passaic)
Assemblyman P. CHRISTOPHER TULLY
District 38 (Bergen and Passaic)
Co-Sponsored by:
Senators Corrado, Beach, Greenstein, Assemblywomen Swain, Murphy, DiMaso, Assemblymen Wirths, Space, Houghtaling, Assemblywomen Pinkin and Downey
SYNOPSIS
Requires boards of education and nonpublic schools to provide law enforcement authorities with copies of blueprints and maps of schools and school grounds.
CURRENT VERSION OF TEXT
As introduced.
An Act concerning school safety and supplementing chapter 41 of Title 18A of the New Jersey Statutes.
Be It Enacted by the Senate and General Assembly of the State of New Jersey:
1. Each board of education or chief school administrator of a nonpublic school shall provide to local law enforcement authorities a copy of the current blueprints and maps for all schools and school grounds within the school district or nonpublic school. In the case of a school building located in a municipality in which there is no municipal police department, a copy of the blueprints and maps shall be provided to an entity designated by the Superintendent of State Police. A board of education or chief school administrator of a nonpublic school shall provide revised copies to the applicable law enforcement authorities or designated entities any time that there is a change to the blueprints or maps.
2. This act shall take effect immediately.
STATEMENT
This bill requires each board of education and chief school administrator of a nonpublic school to provide a copy of the current blueprints and maps for all schools and school grounds to local law enforcement authorities. Under the bill, if a school building is located in a municipality that does not have a municipal police department, the copies of the blueprints and maps will be provided to an entity designated by the Superintendent of State Police. The bill directs a board of education and chief school administrator of a nonpublic school to provide revised copies to law enforcement whenever there is a change to the blueprints or maps.
The requirement that public schools supply law enforcement officials with copies of the school’s blueprints and maps is contained in the “Uniform State Memorandum of Agreement Between Education and Law Enforcement Officials” (MOA). Current State Board of Education regulations require all school districts to have a memorandum of agreement with law enforcement authorities.