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Chief: Quarterly report shows eight school-safety noncompliance incidents, all remediated within 24 hours
Summary
Chief Jimmy Williams told the Leon County School Board that, under House Bill 1473, the district logged eight noncompliance items in the last quarter; each was handled the same day and reported to the Department of Education.
Chief Jimmy Williams delivered the district’s second quarterly report under House Bill 1473 and said the district recorded eight noncompliance items in the last quarter.
The report matters because House Bill 1473 requires school-safety specialists of record to file quarterly reports with the Florida Department of Education; the board asked for detail on trends and compliance at district schools.
“In this last quarter we had 8 non compliance issues noted, each of which were handled on the very same day reported as required by law to DOE of our actions that we took and reported to the appropriate directors over these schools,” Chief Jimmy Williams said. “These 8 non compliance issues ... were handled in the same day and were remedied within 24 hours and reported to DOE as required by law.”
Williams said the district maintains an executive set of records on those incidents and invited board members to review them in his office. He described the department’s practice as documenting actions and notifying appropriate school directors and the state education department. Board members asked only clarifying questions about pending state legislative activity and whether app-based reporting tools might be affected by state-level proposals; Williams said he had heard informal reports that some legislators were considering deregulating certain after-hours locking requirements and possibly reviewing app-based reporting programs.
The report was presented as an informational update; no vote or board action was recorded. Williams reiterated that records are available for board review.
Board members did not take formal action on the report but used the discussion to ask whether upcoming legislative changes could alter local procedures or reporting tools. Williams said he would try to gather more detail about the items being discussed at the special session and update the board if proposals would affect Leon County Schools.
