SB910: Higher educational institutions, public; threat assessment teams, powers and duties.

Legislative Summary

Public institutions of higher education; threat assessment teams; powers and duties. Makes several changes to the powers and duties of the threat assessment team at each public institution of higher education, including requiring, upon a preliminary determination that an individual poses an articulable and significant threat of violence to others, each such team to (i) obtain any available criminal history record information and health records for such individual; (ii) notify in writing within 24 hours upon making such preliminary determination (a) the campus police department; (b) local law enforcement for the city or county in which the public institution of higher education is located, local law enforcement for the city or county in which the individual resides, and, if known to the threat assessment team, local law enforcement for the city or county in which the individual is located; and (c) the local attorney for the Commonwealth in any jurisdiction where the threat assessment team has notified local law enforcement; and (iii) disclose any specific threat of violence posed by the individual as part of such notification, and permitting each such team to invite nonmember representatives from campus to participate in individual cases.