5710 School Safety and the Educational Climate (SSEC)

The Brentwood Board of Education is committed to promoting and maintaining the safety of all students, staff and visitors to the schools. Consistent with this commitment and in accordance with New York State law and regulation, the District shall submit an annual report to the Commissioner of Education regarding violent or disruptive incidents in the form prescribed by the Commissioner.

A. Reporting Requirement

Each building principal, in conjunction with his/her assistant principal, shall be responsible for preparing their school’s annual report of all the violent or disruptive incidents, associated with their building, and forwarding the report to the Assistant Superintendent for Secondary Education, Programs & Policy The Assistant Superintendent for Secondary Education, Programs & Policy shall be responsible for compiling the reports received from the building principals into the annual report to be reviewed by the Superintendent of Schools. Upon receiving final approval from the Superintendent, the report shall be submitted to the State Education Department. The report shall contain all the information required by law and shall be filed with the State Education Department on or before the required due date each year.

Each building principal shall be responsible for assuring that copies of each report, along with any backup documentation of each incident, are retained at the building level for the period prescribed in the records retention schedule issued by the State Education Department and published as Appendix I to the Commissioner’s Regulations.

B. Confidentiality

Any violent or disruptive incident report prepared in accordance with law shall be available for inspection by the State Education Department upon request. All names and other personally identifiable information included in any report shall be confidential and shall not be disclosed to any person or used by any person for purposes other than the reporting purposes in Education Law §2802, except as otherwise authorized by law.

Ref: Education Law §2802 (Uniform Violent Incident Reporting System)

8 NYCRR 100.2 (gg) (Uniform Violent Incident Reporting System)

8 NYCRR 185.11 (Appendix I) (Records Retention and Disposition Schedule ED-1)

Approved by the Board of Education: 12/17/09

Revision Approved by the Board of Education: 08/15/19

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