2020 Nevada Revised Statutes
Chapter 388 - System of Public Instruction
NRS 388.257 - Duties of principal if crisis, emergency or suicide occurs at school; determination by local agency whether crisis or emergency requires assistance from state agency; duties of Division of Emergency Management of Department of Public Safety; notification of other schools.
1. If a crisis or an emergency that requires immediate action occurs at a public school or a suicide occurs, the principal of the school involved, or the principal’s designated representative, shall, in accordance with the plan developed for the school pursuant to NRS 388.243 and in accordance with any deviation approved pursuant to NRS 388.251, contact all appropriate local agencies, including, without limitation, a provider of mental health services which is operated by a state or local agency, to respond to the crisis, emergency or suicide.
2. If a local agency that is responsible for responding to a crisis or an emergency is contacted pursuant to subsection 1 and the local agency determines that the crisis or the emergency requires assistance from a state agency, the local agency may:
(a) If a local organization for emergency management has been established in the city or county in which the local agency that was contacted is located, through such local organization for emergency management, notify the Division of Emergency Management of the Department of Public Safety of the crisis or the emergency and request assistance from the Division in responding to the crisis or the emergency; or
(b) If a local organization for emergency management has not been established in the city or county in which the local agency that was contacted is located, directly notify the Division of Emergency Management of the Department of Public Safety of the crisis or the emergency and request assistance from the Division in responding to the crisis or the emergency.
3. If the Division of Emergency Management of the Department of Public Safety receives notification of a crisis or an emergency and a request for assistance pursuant to subsection 2 and the Governor or the Governor’s designated representative determines that the crisis or the emergency requires assistance from a state agency, the Division shall carry out its duties set forth in the model plan developed pursuant to NRS 388.253 and its duties set forth in chapter 414 of NRS, including, without limitation, addressing the immediate crisis or emergency and coordinating the appropriate and available local, state and federal resources to provide support services and counseling to pupils, teachers, and parents or legal guardians of pupils, and providing support for law enforcement agencies, for as long as is reasonably necessary.
4. If a local law enforcement agency responds to a crisis, emergency or suicide that occurs at a public school or notifies a public school regarding a crisis, emergency or suicide that occurs outside of the public school, the local law enforcement agency must consider whether it is necessary and appropriate to notify any other public school or any private school of the crisis, emergency or suicide. Such notification must include, without limitation, any information necessary for the public school or private school to appropriately respond to the crisis, emergency or suicide.
(Added to NRS by 2001, 1327; A 2011, 1077; 2015, 202, 1739; 2017, 4018) — (Substituted in revision for NRS 392.648)
