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An Act To Ensure the Integrity of School Crisis Response Plans
Be it enacted by the People of the State of Maine as follows:
Sec. 1. 20-A MRSA §1001, sub-§16,  as amended by PL 2001, c. 588, §10, is further amended to read:
 
16. Crisis response plan.   They shall annually approve a plan developed by the school unit administration working with local public safety, mental health and law enforcement officials to deal with crises and potential crisis situations involving violent acts by or against students in each school in the school administrative unit. An approval of a crisis response plan under this subsection is public information. The contents of a crisis response plan approved under this subsection are confidential and not available to the public.
 
SUMMARY
This bill makes the approval of a crisis response plan by a school board public information but makes the contents of the plan confidential and not available to the public.