AR 3515
Business and Noninstructional Operations
Campus Security
The Superintendent of
designee shall ensure that campus security procedures are developed that are
consistent with the goals and objectives of the District’s comprehensive safety
plan and site-level safety plans.
These procedures shall
include strategies and methods to:
1. Secure
the campus perimeter and school facilities in order to prevent criminal
activity. These strategies shall include
an analysis of the building security system lighting system, and campus
fencing. Procedures to ensure
unobstructed views and eliminate blind spots caused by doorways and landscaping
shall also be considered. In addition,
parking lot design may be studied, including methods to discourage through
traffic.
2. Secure
buildings from outsiders and discourage trespassing. These procedures should include requiring
visitor registration, requiring staff and student identification tags, and
patrolling places used for congregating loitering.
3. Discourage
vandalism and graffiti. These methods
may include plans to immediately cover graffiti as well as campus
beautification projects and shall also include students and the community in
these projects.
4. Control access to keys and other school inventory.
5. Detect
and intervene with school crime. These
procedures may include the creation of a school watch program, an anonymous
crime reporting system, analysis of school crime incidents, and collaboration
and communication with local law enforcement agencies.
All
staff shall receive training in building and grounds security procedures. These procedures shall be regularly reviewed
and updated in order to reflect changed circumstances and to assess progress in
achieving safe school objectives.
Keys
All
keys used in the District shall be the responsibility of the Director or
designee. Keys shall be issued only to
those employees who regularly need a key in order to carry out normal
activities of their position.
The person issued a key
shall be responsible for its safekeeping.
If a key is lost, the person responsible shall report the loss to the
Director and Business Office immediately and shall pay for a replacement key.
The Director or designee
shall create a key control system with a record of each key assigned and
room(s) or building(s) which the key opens.
Keys shall be used only by
authorized employees and shall never be loaned to students.
The master key shall not be
loaned and the duplication of District keys is prohibited.
Video Camera Security
The Metropolitan Education
District authorizes the use of campus security cameras as recording devices on
District property in order to ensure the health, welfare and safety of all
staff, students and visitors to District property and to safeguard district
facilities and equipment. Security cameras may be used in locations as deemed
appropriate by the Superintendent.
Security Camera Operation
Security cameras may be used
in buildings and in exterior areas including but not limited to parking lots,
building and facility perimeters and entrance and exit doors. Security cameras
equipment will primarily be installed on outside grounds but may include some
interior hallway areas as appropriate.
Equipment will not record in
areas where the public and employees have a reasonable expectation of privacy
such as inside locker rooms and staff and student restrooms. There will be no
security camera recording inside classrooms. Every effort will be made to avoid
continuous video imaging of an employee work station. Audio recording will not
be a function of the security camera system.
The facility will have
posted signs informing students, staff and visitors that the buildings and grounds
may be recorded by security cameras.
The use of security camera
and recording equipment shall be supervised and controlled by the site
principal/director and/or by District office administration, who
may also designate other site administrators to operate the system and manage
video files.
The security camera system
is not intended to be monitored on a continuous real-time basis, nor is it
intended to substitute for direct supervision.
There are no video monitors for public viewing.
Staff and students are
prohibited from unauthorized use, tampering with, or otherwise interfering with
the security camera system or equipment and will be subject to appropriate
disciplinary action for doing so.
The District shall provide
reasonable safeguards, including but not limited to, password protection,
network security, firewalls, and control of physical access to protect the
monitoring system from vandals and unauthorized users.
The regulations shall be
incorporated into training and orientation programs. The regulations should be
reviewed and updated on a regular basis.
Video camera recording and
files:
Video files will be stored
for a minimum of 10 calendar days, after which the oldest files are overwritten
by newer files. The video files are stored in digital format on appropriate
servers and not stored on video tape.
Video files may be viewed,
copied and distributed by public safety agencies, and
District security/fire staff and retained as necessary and retained as part of
a student’s behavioral record in accordance with established District
procedures. Video files may be
distributed to, copied by and viewed by administrative, security and safety
staff in the course of an investigation of a safety or security event.
Video files copies will be
distributed to law enforcement and public safety agencies when subpoenaed.
Video files will not be copied, distributed or viewed by other persons not
referenced above except when authorized by law enforcement or court order.
LEGAL REFERENCE:
Education Code
32020 Access gates
32211 Threatened disruption
or interference with classes
35294-35294.5
School safety plans
39670-39675 Security patrols
Penal Code
469
Authorized making,
duplicating or possession of key to public buildings
626-626.10
Disruption of schools
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