Board approves broader information-sharing agreement with sheriff's office for threat assessments
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The Taylor County School Board approved an interagency agreement with the Taylor County Sheriff's Office to expand data collection and sharing for CAT-team threat assessments so responding entities have more complete information, the district said. The agreement was presented as a remedial clarification to the previously approved SRO contract.
The Taylor County School Board voted Dec. 9 to approve an interagency agreement with the Taylor County Sheriff's Office that expands permissible data collection and information-sharing for threat assessments and related safety processes.
Ms. Ball explained that the previously approved SRO contract lacked explicit language allowing broader information-sharing with the district's CAT (Child Assessment/Threat) team and other partners. "The inter agency agreement is much broader as far as data collection, sharing of information, so that when those entities, deal with threat assessments, they all will have the best information available to them," Ms. Ball said. The board moved, seconded, and approved the agreement.
Board members asked clarifying questions about the scope of information to be shared and whether the agreement resolved earlier issues identified by the district's new safety specialist. The board directed staff to distribute the executed agreement to participating agencies and flagged related operational steps for the district's safety and student services teams.
Next steps: The district will circulate the executed agreement to partners and implement the data-sharing procedures; details on reporting requirements and data-protection safeguards were not detailed in the public transcript and were left to staff implementation.