SB 242, as introduced, Monning. School security: surplus military equipment.
Existing law authorizes the governing board of a school district to establish a security department under the supervision of a chief of security, or a police department under the supervision of a school chief of police.
The Federal Surplus Property Acquisition Law of 1945 authorizes a local agency, as defined, to acquire surplus federal property without regard to any law which requires posting of notices or advertising for bids, inviting or receiving bids, delivery of purchases before payment, or prevents the local agency from bidding on federal surplus property. Existing federal law authorizes the Department of Defense to transfer surplus personal property, including arms and ammunition, to federal or state agencies for use in law enforcement activities, subject to specified conditions, at no cost to the acquiring agency.
This bill would require the governing board of school districts that have established a school police department to prohibit that school police department from receiving surplus military equipment pursuant to the above-described federal law unless specified conditions are satisfied.
Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: no. State-mandated local program: no.
The people of the State of California do enact as follows:
Section 38004.5 is added to the Education Code,
2to read:
The governing board of a school district that
4establishes a school police department shall not permit the school
5police department to receive surplus military equipment pursuant
6to Section 2576a of Title 10 of the Unites States Code, unless the
7governing board of the school district does all of the following:
8(a) Votes to approve the acquisition of surplus military
9equipment at a regularly scheduled public board meeting.
10(b) Provides parents or guardians of pupils, and other members
11of the public, a chance to comment at a regularly scheduled public
12board meeting on the proposed acquisition of surplus military
13equipment, and clearly and in a manner recognizable to the general
14public, identify in the
agenda the topic to be discussed at the
15meeting.
16(c) Provides written notice to the parents or guardians of pupils
17of what surplus military equipment the school police department
18will receive, and a detailed description of the function and purpose
19of that equipment.
20(d) Identifies safe and secure storage for surplus military
21equipment to be received by a school police department.
22(e) Ensures that peace officers employed by a school police
23department possess adequate training in the safe use and handling
24of the surplus military equipment to be received.
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