41-1733. School safety interoperability fund; school safety pilot program; annual report
A. The school safety interoperability fund is established consisting of monies appropriated to the fund by the legislature. The state treasurer shall administer the fund. The fund is subject to legislative appropriation. Monies in the fund shall be distributed to the sheriff of a county that establishes a school safety pilot program and may be used only for a school safety pilot program that meets all of the following:
1. Encompasses up to eight hundred schools that are across three different counties. One of the counties must have a population that is more than three million persons and the other two counties must each have a population that is less than five hundred thousand persons.
2. In a school safety pilot program county, enables the deployment of a secure, multimedia data communications system to a user base consisting of public safety agencies and public schools providing instruction in any combination of kindergarten programs and grades one through twelve.
3. Provides a communications solution environment that allows for:
(a) Identifying system users' identity, location and operational status during an incident.
(b) Secure text messaging and file sharing to all users involved in an incident.
(c) Secure sharing of collaborative maps, building floor plans and images between schools and public safety agencies.
(d) Integrating manually activated panic alarm systems that, when activated, establish direct collaboration between schools and public safety agencies.
(e) Using multiple forms of real-time communications and information collaboration, including voice and full-motion video sharing, during an incident.
4. Is capable of being deployed to end users on existing communications assets owned by participating entities.
5. Allows each participating entity to maintain discretionary real-time control of all communications assets owned or operated by the entity.
6. Encrypts all media communications.
7. Is certified under the United States department of homeland security safety act as qualified anti-terrorism technology.
8. Is compatible with the federal emergency management agency interoperable gateway system for disaster communications.
9. Ensures student and staff privacy.
B. On or before November 1 of each year, the sheriff of a county that has established a school safety pilot program pursuant to this section shall submit a report to the joint legislative budget committee of all expenditures made for the school safety pilot program in the preceding fiscal year.