REPORT TITLE:
DOE; Safety Pilot Program


DESCRIPTION:
Establishes a Safety Pilot Program; appropriates funding.

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
                                                        
THE SENATE                              S.B. NO.           2458
TWENTIETH LEGISLATURE, 2000                                
STATE OF HAWAII                                            
                                                             
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                   A  BILL  FOR  AN  ACT
RELATING TO EDUCATION.



BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF HAWAII:

 1      SECTION 1.  The 1995 United States Department of Education,
 
 2 Division of Adolescents and School Health survey results stated
 
 3 that thirty per cent of students had property stolen or
 
 4 deliberately damaged on school property.  In the same survey,
 
 5 thirty-three per cent of students reported being in a physical
 
 6 fight one or more times; thirty-six per cent of those students
 
 7 had someone offer, sell, or give them an illegal drug on school
 
 8 property.
 
 9      The 1997 national survey produced by the United States
 
10 Department of Education's National Center for Education and
 
11 Statistics reported that twenty per cent of American middle
 
12 schools and high schools reported serious crimes such as rape or
 
13 robbery.  In that survey, public schools nationwide experienced
 
14 more than eleven thousand fights in which weapons were used, four
 
15 thousand rapes and other sexual assaults, and seven thousand
 
16 robberies.  
 
17      The 1995 Hawaii Youth Risk Behavior Survey Report, a survey
 
18 administered to 1,244 students in twenty-two public high schools
 
19 across the State, found that nearly one hundred students carried
 
20 a weapon on school property within thirty days of the survey.
 

 
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 1      At the 1997 Student Governance Summit, one hundred twenty-
 
 2 two out of one hundred twenty-eight delegates were in favor of a
 
 3 recommendation that supported higher qualifications and more
 
 4 training for school security attendants.  For the past twenty-
 
 5 three years, the Hawaii State Student Conference has recommended
 
 6 that schools address the security problems.  In a 1997 Hawaii
 
 7 State Student Council survey of 6,579 secondary students in
 
 8 Hawaii, seventeen per cent were concerned about security.  
 
 9      The Hawaii department of education's central district
 
10 received a multi-million dollar federal grant to establish a
 
11 safety program in all of the central district schools.  The
 
12 department of education's transportation and safety section is
 
13 coordinating a pilot program, the Safety Risk Management
 
14 Alliance, for high schools in the Honolulu, leeward district, and
 
15 windward districts that is patterned after the central district's
 
16 federally funded safety program.  The goal of the Safety Risk
 
17 Management Alliance pilot program is to provide a comprehensive
 
18 approach to safe and secure schools.  
 
19      The department of education pilot program requires each
 
20 participating high school to have a professional security
 
21 officer, a school safety manager, on campus who is directly in
 
22 charge of the security attendants.  Each school safety manager is
 
23 required to have a minimum of twenty years of successful police-
 

 
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 1 related experience and forty hours of training prior to each
 
 2 assignment.  The school safety managers will conduct two hours of
 
 3 school security aide training each week, be available twenty-four
 
 4 hours a day to respond to school emergencies, and will serve as a
 
 5 safety and security role model.  The school safety managers will
 
 6 be a resource for preventive safety planning.  The program, to
 
 7 start January 2000, will be overseen by state director Rodney
 
 8 Goo, a retired police officer now working in the department of
 
 9 education's transportation and safety section.  Participating
 
10 schools are required to contribute funding, with each high school
 
11 contributing $20,000.
 
12      The purpose of this Act is to appropriate funds for the
 
13 department of education's safety risk management alliance
 
14 program.
 
15      SECTION 2.  There is appropriated out of the general
 
16 revenues of the State of Hawaii the sum of $800,000, or so much
 
17 thereof as may be necessary for fiscal year 2000-2001, for the
 
18 safety risk management alliance pilot program.
 
19      SECTION 3.  The sum appropriated shall be expended by the
 
20 department of education for the purposes of this Act.
 

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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 1      SECTION 4.  This Act shall take effect on July 1, 2000.
 
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 3                           INTRODUCED BY:  _______________________