A new office in Colorado's Department of Public Safety will help schools prepare for, respond to and recover from emergencies.
The Colorado Office of School Safety was officially established within the state's Department of Public Safety on July 1 after Colorado Gov. Jared Polis signed bipartisan Senate Bill 23-241 into law on April 27. Christine Harms was appointed director of the OSS on July 15.Senate Bill 23-241 was sponsored by Sen. Jeff Bridges, Sen. Barbara Kirkmeyer, Rep. Shannon Bird and Rep. Rod Bockenfeld.
Sen. Kirkmeyer added that the state legislature needed to stop just talking about school safety and actually make forward progress. Bipartisan bill aims to create state Office of School Safety For the 2023-2024 fiscal year, $25,798,091 was appropriated to DPS for use by the OSS. Of that, about $20,400,000 is from the general fund, $5 million is from the school access for emergency response grant program cash fund, $250,000 from the marijuana tax cash fund, and $146,491 from the school safety resource center cash fund, according to SB 23-241.
In 2019, an audit found Colorado's school safety programs were"not centralized" and not required to work together. The audit reported the programs create a risk of"uncoordinated efforts, gaps in services, and challenges in determining reach and impact." Senate Bill 23-241 was introduced in an effort to change that.
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