§ 10-19-3.5-6 — Duties of the office

Indiana § 10-19-3.5-6

• Jurisdiction: Indiana
• Title 10: PUBLIC SAFETY
• Art. 19: DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY
• Ch. 3.5: Office of School Safety

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(a) The office shall:
(1) establish and maintain guidelines for using professional
architectural and engineering services to integrate physical
security improvements and safety practices in the construction,
renovation, repair, or alteration of a school facility;
(2) carry out the office's responsibilities with regards to the school
safety specialist training and certification program established by
IC 10-21-1-13;
(3) establish and maintain guidelines for establishing emergency
response protocols in cooperation with other state agencies;
(4) carry out the office's responsibilities to safe school committees
established under IC 10-21-1-14;
(5) coordinate the department's response and recovery assistance
to a school in the event of a manmade or natural disaster;
(6) provide information and guidance to assist school corporations
or schools to establish mutual aid disaster assistance agreements
with other schools or school corporations;
(7) study and collect information to integrate lessons learned from
previous school disasters throughout the country into the
curriculum of the school safety specialist training and certification
program established by IC 10-21-1-13 and guidelines established
by the office under this subsection;
(8) establish and maintain guidelines, in consultation with the
department of education and institute for criminal justice, for
developing and maintaining school safety plans as described in IC 10-21-1-10 and IC 10-21-1-11; and
(9) assist the secured school safety board established by IC 10-21-1-3 in conducting the review and submitting the report as
described in IC 10-21-1-8.
(b) The office may:
(1) request a meeting with a school corporation or charter school
to review a school safety plan as described in IC 10-21-1-10;
(2) request to provide an onsite safety review for a school
corporation or charter school;
(3) request to provide guidance or assistance relating to school
safety matters to a school corporation or charter school;
(4) provide assistance or guidance relating to school safety
matters upon request by a nonpublic school that has voluntarily
become accredited under IC 20-31-4.1 or is accredited by a
national or regional accrediting agency that is recognized by the
state board of education; and
(5) provide assistance or guidance relating to school safety
matters upon request by a county school safety commission
established under IC 10-21-1-12.
The applicable school corporation or charter school must comply with
any requests made by the office under this subsection.
(c) The office shall maintain a secure website to provide school
officials and public safety officials access to information that is
considered confidential under IC 5-14-3-4(b)(1), IC 5-14-3-4(b)(18),
and IC 5-14-3-4(b)(19) or other sensitive information that may assist
school officials and public safety officials in improving school safety
or responding to a manmade or natural disaster.
(d) The office shall maintain a public website that contains:
(1) the guidelines established by the office under subsection (a);
(2) best practices pertaining to school safety; and
(3) any other information the office determines may be necessary
to carry out the office's duties or responsibilities under this
chapter.

Legislative History

As added by P.L.238-2025, SEC.39.