§ 2801-a. School safety plans. 1. The board of education or trustees,\nas defined in section two of this chapter, of every school district\nwithin the state, however created, and every board of cooperative\neducational services and county vocational education and extension board\nand the chancellor of the city school district of the city of New York\nshall adopt and amend a comprehensive district-wide school safety plan\nand building-level emergency response plans regarding crisis\nintervention, emergency response and management, provided that in the\ncity school district of the city of New York, such plans shall be\nadopted by the chancellor of the city school district. Such plans shall\nbe developed by a district-wide school safety team and a building-level\nemergency response team established pursuant to subdivision four of this\nsection and shall be in a form developed by the commissioner in\nconsultation with the division of criminal justice services, the\nsuperintendent of the state police and any other appropriate state\nagencies. The commissioner, in consultation with the superintendent of\nthe state police, is authorized to develop an appeals process from\nduplicative requirements of a district-wide school safety plan for\nschool districts having only one school building.\n 2. Such comprehensive district-wide safety plan shall be developed by\nthe district-wide school safety team and shall include at a minimum:\n a. policies and procedures for responding to implied or direct threats\nof violence by students, teachers, other school personnel including bus\ndrivers and monitors, as well as visitors to the school, including\nthreats by students against themselves, which for the purposes of this\nsection shall include suicide;\n b. policies and procedures for responding to acts of violence by\nstudents, teachers, other school personnel including bus drivers and\nmonitors, as well as visitors to the school, including consideration of\nzero-tolerance policies for school violence;\n c. appropriate prevention and intervention strategies such as:\n (i) collaborative arrangements with state and local law enforcement\nofficials, designed to ensure that school safety officers and other\nsecurity personnel are adequately trained, including being trained to\nde-escalate potentially violent situations, and are effectively and\nfairly recruited;\n (ii) non-violent conflict resolution training programs;\n (iii) peer mediation programs and youth courts; and\n (iv) extended day and other school safety programs;\n d. policies and procedures for contacting appropriate law enforcement\nofficials in the event of a violent incident;\n e. policies and procedures for contacting parents, guardians or\npersons in parental relation to the students of the district in the\nevent of a violent incident and policies and procedures for contacting\nparents, guardians or persons in parental relation to an individual\nstudent of the district in the event of an implied or direct threat of\nviolence by such student against themselves, which for purposes of this\nsection shall include suicide;\n f. policies and procedures relating to school building security,\nincluding where appropriate the use of school safety officers and/or\nsecurity devices or procedures. District-wide school safety teams shall\nconsider, as part of its reviews of the comprehensive district-wide\nsafety plan, the installation of a panic alarm system. For purposes of\nthis paragraph, "panic alarm system" shall mean a silent security system\nsignal generated by the manual activation of a device intended to signal\na life-threatening or emergency situation requiring a response from\nlocal law enforcement or, in the case of a school building located in a\nmunicipality in which there is no municipal police department, a\nlocation designated by the superintendent of state police and may\ninclude one or more of the following: wired panic button or buttons,\nwireless panic button or
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