California Senate Passes Bill That Removes Requirement For Schools To Notify Authorities About Students Who Are Suspected Threats.

The California State Senate has passed a bill that eliminates the need that law enforcement officers be alerted if students threaten to harm themselves or others. Existing law required any school official who is “attacked, assaulted, or physically threatened by any pupil—the employee and any person under whose direction or supervision the employee is employed who has knowledge of the incident to promptly report the incident to specified law enforcement authorities” before the bill, SB 1273, was passed. A punishment of “not less than $500 and not more than $1,000” might be imposed on anybody who fails to disclose a potential threat. These clauses are repealed by the new measure, which was presented by State Senator Steven Bradford (D-Los Angeles) and passed the state’s upper house on May 26. The bill was enacted barely two days after an 18-year-old gunman…

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