MN HF4299

School boards must adopt policies to establish threat assessment teams to assess and intervene with individuals whose behavior may pose a threat to school staff or student safety.

Superintendents must establish a threat assessment team for each school that includes officials with expertise in counseling, instruction, school administration, and law enforcement; teams may serve multiple schools as determined by the superintendent.

Threat assessment teams must provide guidance on recognizing threatening behavior, identify reporting channels, and implement adopted policies; they must immediately report preliminary determinations of student violence threats to the superintendent and attempt to notify parents or guardians.

Teams must report summary data on their activities according to guidance from the Minnesota School Safety Center and are restricted from redisclosing educational records beyond their original purpose, except in health, mental health, and safety emergencies under state and federal law.

A district-level oversight committee, which may be an existing committee, must oversee all threat assessment teams operating within the district.