Bill > S2648

Introduced Session

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 will remain unknown, except when the reporting individual voluntarily discloses his identity and verifies that his identity may 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 will be distributed to all public and nonpublic schools in the State for dissemination to students and their families.

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Tom Kean (R)*,  Anthony Bucco (R), 

Introduced in the Senate, Referred to Senate Law and Public Safety Committee (on 06/04/2018)