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HB 2347 Juvenile law-enforcement records; principal may provide information to threat assessment team, etc.

Introduced by: David I. Ramadan | all patrons    ...    notes | add to my profiles | history

SUMMARY AS ENACTED WITH GOVERNOR'S RECOMMENDATION:

Confidentiality of juvenile law-enforcement records; disclosures to school principal. Provides that, in addition to disclosures of juvenile law-enforcement records that may already be made by chiefs of police and sheriffs to school principals, those same records (involving violent crimes, arson crimes, and firearm crimes) may also be released by the principal of the school to threat assessment teams established by the local school division. The bill also allows law enforcement to share with private school principals the same law-enforcement records concerning juveniles that it can share with public school principals and allows private school principals to share information with threat assessment teams.

SUMMARY AS PASSED:

Confidentiality of juvenile law-enforcement records; disclosures to school principal. Provides that, in addition to disclosures of juvenile law-enforcement records that may already be made by chiefs of police and sheriffs to school principals, those same records (involving violent crimes, arson crimes, and firearm crimes) may also be released by the principal of the school to threat assessment teams established by the local school division.

SUMMARY AS PASSED HOUSE:

Confidentiality of juvenile law-enforcement records; disclosures to school principal. Provides that, in addition to disclosures of juvenile law-enforcement records that may already be made by chiefs of police and sheriffs to school principals, those same records (involving violent crimes, arson crimes, and firearm crimes) may also be released by the principal of the school to threat assessment teams established by the local school division. The bill contains a second enactment clause that provides that the passage of the bill is dependent on the passage of another measure still pending before the General Assembly containing language necessary to the implementation of this bill.

SUMMARY AS INTRODUCED:

Juvenile intake and petition information; threat assessment teams. Provides that juvenile intake officers shall notify chiefs of campus police departments of any petition alleging that a juvenile known to be enrolled in such institution of higher education has committed an act that would be a crime if committed by an adult. Intake officers must also notify any appropriate school division superintendent, the chief of campus police, and the local chief of police or sheriff whenever the officers reasonably believe that a juvenile poses a credible danger of serious bodily injury or death to other persons. The bill also provides exceptions to the confidentiality of records maintained by the Department of Juvenile Justice to allow such records to be shared with threat assessment teams established by any school division or by any institution of higher education.