392.620 - Development committee: Development of plan to be used by schools in responding to crisis; submission of plan to board of trustees or governing body of charter school; compliance with plan re - Nevada Statutes

392.620  Development committee: Development of plan to be used by schools in responding to crisis; submission of plan to board of trustees or governing body of charter school; compliance with plan required.

      1.  Each development committee established by the board of trustees of a school district shall develop one plan to be used by all the public schools other than the charter schools in the school district in responding to a crisis. Each development committee established by the governing body of a charter school shall develop a plan to be used by the charter school in responding to a crisis. Each development committee shall, when developing the plan, consult with the local social service agencies and local law enforcement agencies in the county in which its school district or charter school is located. The plan must include, without limitation, a procedure for:

      (a) Assisting persons within a school in the school district or the charter school to communicate with each other;

      (b) Assisting persons within a school in the school district or the charter school to communicate with persons located outside the school, including, without limitation, relatives of pupils and relatives of employees of the school, the news media and persons from local, state or federal agencies that are responding to a crisis;

      (c) Immediately responding to a crisis and for responding during the period after a crisis has concluded, including, without limitation, a crisis that results in immediate physical harm to a pupil or employee of a school in the school district or the charter school;

      (d) Assisting pupils of a school in the school district or the charter school, employees of the school and relatives of such pupils and employees to move safely within and away from the school, including, without limitation, a procedure for evacuating the school and a procedure for securing the school; and

      (e) Enforcing discipline within a school in the school district or the charter school and for obtaining and maintaining a safe and orderly environment during a crisis.

      2.  Each development committee shall provide a copy of the plan that it develops pursuant to this section to the board of trustees of the school district that established the committee or the governing body of the charter school that established the committee.

      3.  Except as otherwise provided in NRS 392.632 and 392.636, each public school, including, without limitation, each charter school, must comply with the plan developed for it pursuant to this section.

      (Added to NRS by 2001, 1324)