Mandatory Reports to Police by School Site Administrator or Designee
The principal or designee is required by law to notify law enforcement in the following circumstances:
- The principal or designee is required to notify law enforcement regarding any acts of a student that may involve the possession or sale of narcotics or a controlled substance. (CA Education Code 48902(c)).
- The principal or designee is required to notify law enforcement regarding the possession of a firearm in a school zone, which includes inside school, on school grounds, or within 1,000 feet of a school. (CA Education Code 48902(c), CA Penal Code 626.9).
- The principal or designee is required to notify law enforcement regarding possession of the following items in school or on school grounds: a dirk, dagger, ice pick, knife with a blade longer than 2 ½ inches, folding knife with blade that locks in place, razor with unguarded blade, taser/stun gun, bb or pellet gun, spot marker gun. (CA Education Code 48902(c), CA Penal Code 626.10(a))
- Whenever a District employee is attacked, assaulted or physically threatened by any student, both the employee and the employee’s supervisor who has knowledge of the incident are required to promptly make a report to law enforcement. (CA Education Code 44014).
- Within one school day after suspension or expulsion, the principal or designee is required to notify law enforcement regarding a student’s possession, use, sale, furnishing, or being under the influence of a controlled substance, an alcoholic beverage or intoxicant; or the unlawful sale or negotiation to sell a look-alike substance purported to be a controlled substance, alcoholic beverage or intoxicant. (CA Education Code 48902(b), 48900(c), (d)).
- The principal or designee must notify law enforcement prior to suspending a student for assault on another person with a firearm, a deadly weapon or instrument other than a firearm, or by any means likely to produce great bodily injury. (CA Education Code 48902(a), CA Penal Code 245).
- The principal or designee is required to notify the police and school security or the School Resource Officer (SRO) for 1) Possession, sale, or furnishing a firearm on a school site by a student or nonstudent; 2) Possession of an explosive on a school site by a student or nonstudent. (CA Education Code 48902(c))
This page was last updated on November 5, 2020