No. HB 715
Filed under Criminal Justice.
School and Child Care Facility Emergency Alerts; Requires local law enforcement agency to activate emergency alert system & issue Ya Ya Alert to public & private schools & child care facilities; requires local law enforcement agencies to create & maintain list of such schools & facilities within their jurisdictions; provides requirements for maintenance of such list; provides immunity from civil liability to certain persons for damages for complying in good faith with specified provisions; provides presumption of good faith; requires FDLE, in cooperation with specified departments, to activate emergency alert system & issue Imminent Threat Alert at request of local law enforcement agency; provides requirements for issuance of Imminent Threat Alerts; provides immunity from civil liability to certain persons for damages for complying in good faith with specified provisions; provides presumption of good faith.
Plain English Summary
AI-GENERATEDLocal law enforcement must activate the emergency alert system and issue a Ya Ya Alert to all schools and child care facilities within a 3-mile radius of an imminent threat.
The Department of Law Enforcement must issue an Imminent Threat Alert to the public and display it on state highway dynamic message signs when requested by local agencies.
Each local law enforcement agency must create and maintain a list of all public and private schools and child care facilities within its jurisdiction.
Agencies, media, and other entities are immune from civil liability for good-faith actions taken in recording or releasing these alerts.
AILocal law enforcement must activate the emergency alert system and issue a Ya Ya Alert to all public and private schools and child care facilities within a 3-mile radius of an incident that gives rise to an imminent threat to the public.
AIThe Department of Law Enforcement, in cooperation with the Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles and the Department of Transportation, must activate the emergency alert system and issue an Imminent Threat Alert to the public when a local law enforcement agency confirms an imminent threat exists.
AIEach local law enforcement agency must create and maintain a list of all public schools, private schools, and child care facilities within its jurisdiction for the purpose of complying with the Ya Ya Alert requirements.
AIAgencies, media, and other entities are immune from civil liability for damages for complying in good faith with the recording, reporting, transmitting, displaying, or releasing of Ya Ya Alert or Imminent Threat Alert information, and are presumed to have acted in good faith.