Report 2016-136 Recommendation 5 Responses

Report 2016-136: School Violence Prevention: School Districts, County Offices of Education, and the State Must Do More to Ensure That School Safety Plans Help Protect Students and Staff During Emergencies (Release Date: August 2017)

Recommendation #5 To: Education, Department of

To ensure that districts and county offices properly review and approve safety plans as required, CDE should provide additional guidance regarding district and county office responsibilities under state law by updating and correcting the safety plan compliance checklist and making it available to all districts and county offices.

60-Day Agency Response

Fully Implemented. As stated in our original response, the safety plan compliance checklist was updated, corrected, and posted on the CDE's Web site at http://www.cde.ca.gov/ls/ss/vp/documents/schoolsafetyplanchklist.pdf in August 2017 and is now available to all districts, county offices of education, and the public.

California State Auditor's Assessment of 60-Day Status: Fully Implemented

All Recommendations in 2016-136

Agency responses received are posted verbatim.