District rolls out share911 drills and updates mandatory-reporting procedures; two erroneous alerts reported

The Chino Valley Unified School District reported progress on school safety preparations and state-required reporting training during its board meeting on Monday. Superintendent (name not specified in the transcript) said the district is updating emergency operations plans to align with new requirements from the Arizona Department of Education and the Auditor General's office and is working with an outside consultant to ensure required components are included. The superintendent said the district has begun staff training on a share911 alert app and ran drill-mode tests last week. She told the board the district has recorded two erroneous alerts during the initial rollout but expects to make the app available to parents by the end of the district's first quarter after additional testing. On other safety items, the superintendent said the district will continue to use school resource officers and school safety officers as part of its approach and encouraged board members to complete new mandatory reporting training. She said one training on child-abuse reporting was provided during staff training and that training on mandatory reporting of staff misconduct has not yet been developed by the district's insurance provider; she noted reports of misconduct can be filed through the Arizona Department of Education website. Discussion vs. decision: board members received information and no new policy was adopted at the meeting; the superintendent described planned next steps for training and parent rollout of the alert app. The superintendent gave one example of successful app use: staff at Del Rio used the app on the first day of school to locate a student who had gone to the wrong classroom. Board members asked no questions that altered the rollout timeline on the record; the superintendent said the district would continue drills to work out any technical or operational issues before a parent rollout.