School & Student Safety (EBBB)

The School Board is committed to providing a safe environment for the students, employees, and guests in its schools and at its activities. Toward that end, the School Board shall comply with the Louisiana School and Student Safety Act (La. Rev. Stat. Ann. §§17:409-17:409.5) and shall take immediate action to address potential threats of violence or terrorism to persons in its facilities. The Superintendent shall develop, in consultation with local law enforcement agencies, age-appropriate information regarding internet and cell phone safety and online content that is a potential threat to school safety. The information shall include how to recognize and report potential threats to school safety posted on the internet, including but not limited to social media posts. This information shall be distributed or explained to school personnel and students at the beginning of each school year and shall be posted on an easily accessible page of each school’s website, as well as the website of the School Board. Such information shall include instruction on how to detect potential threats to school safety, visual examples of possible threats, and the process for reporting such threats. The term threat of violence is defined as a communication, whether oral, visual, or written, including but not limited to email, letters, notes, social media posts, text messages, blogs, or posts on any social networking website, of any intent to kill, maim, or cause great bodily harm to a student, employee, or guest on school property or at any school function. The term threat of terrorism means communication, whether oral, visual, or written, including but not limited to email, letters, notes, social media posts, text messages, blogs, or posts on any social networking website, of any crime of violence that would reasonably cause any student, employee, or guest to be in sustained fear for his safety, cause the evacuation or lockdown of a building, or cause any other serious disruption to the operation of a school.