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2007 California Education Code Article 3.8. Machado School Violence Prevention And Response Task Force
CA Codes (edc:32239.5)
EDUCATION CODESECTION 32239.5
32239.5. (a) This article shall be known, and may be cited, as the Machado School Violence Prevention and Response Act of 1999. (b) A School Violence Prevention and Response Task Force is hereby established, which shall consist of the following members: (1) The Superintendent of Public Instruction, the Attorney General, the Director of the Office of Criminal Justice Planning, and the Secretary for Education shall be ex officio voting members of the School Violence Prevention and Response Task Force, and shall serve as cochairs of the task force. (2) Twelve members representing educators, health care practitioners, and members of the law enforcement community, each with expertise in school-based crisis prevention and response appointed as follows: (A) The Director of the Office of Criminal Justice Planning and the Attorney General shall each appoint three members to the task force. These appointments shall include representatives of the law enforcement and victims' services community. These appointments may include persons with expertise in juvenile justice, gang violence prevention, juvenile probation, victim assistance programs, crisis management, or academic experts in criminology or juvenile delinquency. (B) The Superintendent of Public Instruction and the Secretary for Education shall each appoint three members to the task force. These appointments shall include representatives of the education and health care practitioner communities. These appointments may include classroom educators, school administrators, school counselors, school psychologists, parents, pupils, mental health providers, or academic experts in child development or violence prevention. (c) The members of the task force may not receive a salary for their services but shall be reimbursed for their actual and necessary travel and other expenses incurred in the performance of their duties. (d) The task force shall do all of the following: (1) Analyze and evaluate current statutes and programs in the area of school-based crisis prevention and response. (2) Make appropriate policy recommendations on how to enhance state and local programs and training to adequately prepare school districts and county offices of education to meet the challenges stemming from disruptive and violent acts, or both, on or near school campuses. These recommendations shall include a discussion regarding the manner in which the recommendations may be implemented within existing resources. (3) Suggest methods for training school personnel on how to recognize risk indicators for pupils that could eventually lead to violence. These suggested methods shall include how to refer pupils to trained personnel, such as school psychologists, counselors, mental health providers, or other designated appropriate staff. (4) Hold at least two public meetings. (e) Each of the cochairs shall have the authority to convene subcommittee meetings. However, any findings or recommendations made by a subcommittee, or by any of the other members of the task force, shall be approved by at least three of the four voting members of the task force in order to be incorporated in the report described in paragraph (5) of subdivision (c). (f) The Office of Criminal Justice Planning shall make staff resources available to the task force.
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