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Lodi Unified School District

Policy 6114.2 - Bomb Threats

Series: 6000 - Instruction

Policy: 6114.2 - Bomb Threats

Adopted: 12/08/1998

Last Revised: N/A

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Bomb Threats

To provide for the safety of students and staff, the Superintendent or designee shall develop procedures for dealing with bomb threats.

Whenever the principal or designee believes that a danger may exist, he/she shall have students and staff evacuate threatened areas until law enforcement or fire department staff conduct a bomb search and determine that reentry is safe.

The Superintendent or designee shall make every effort to identify individuals who make bomb threats and have them prosecuted. Students who make such threats shall be suspended and/or expelled.

Legal Reference

Education Code
44810 Willful interference with classroom conduct
48900 Grounds for suspension or expulsion
51202 Instruction in personal and public health and safety
 
Penal Code
17 Felony, misdemeanor, classification of offenses
148.1 False report of explosive or facsimile bomb
245 Assault with deadly weapon or force likely to produce great bodily injury; punishment
594 Vandalism; penalty
 
Board Policy
1400 - Relations between Other Governmental Agencies and the Schools
5131.5 - Vandalism, Theft and Graffiti
5144.1 - Suspension and Expulsion/Due Process
6114 - Emergencies and Disaster Preparedness Plan

Rule 6114.2

Last Revised 06/19/2015

Receiving Threats

Anyone answering a telephoned bomb threat shall try to keep the caller on the line and get answers to the following questions:

  1. When is the bomb scheduled to go off?
  2. Where is the bomb located?
  3. What kind of bomb is it?
  4. Who placed the bomb?
  5. How do you know about the bomb?
  6. What is your name and address?

The person who receives the call should also try to determine the caller's sex, age, and distinctive features of voice or speech and should take note of background noises such as music, traffic, machinery or other voices.

Anyone who receives a written bomb threat shall place it in an envelope and take note of where and by whom it was found.

Any employee or student who receives a bomb threat shall immediately report the threat to the principal or designee.

Procedures

Upon perceiving that a danger may exist, the principal or designee shall:

  1. Immediately use fire drill signals to evacuate threatened areas.
    1. Students and staff shall follow standard fire drill procedures.
    2. Teachers shall take roll at their assigned areas and immediately report any absences to the principal or designee.
    3. Teachers shall remain with their classes, well away from the school buildings, until relieved.
  2. Immediately turn off any two-way radio equipment which is located in a threatened building.
  3. Immediately inform law enforcement authorities, the fire department, and the Superintendent or designee.

Appropriate public safety authorities shall conduct the bomb search. School police officers may assist in this search. No other school staff shall search for or handle any explosive or incendiary device.

Except for school police officers, no staff or students shall reenter the threatened building(s) until authorized public safety personnel advise the principal or designee that reentry is safe.