Threats and Weapons Information Course - 2024-25

The Florida Commissioner of Education requires that we make training available for parents and guardians of students that includes the consequences for making a threat or false report via FortifyFL involving school or school personnel's property, school transportation, or a school-sponsored activity. The course has been made available to all parents and guardians.

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Threats / Intimidation

Level IV offenses are the most serious. If you commit one of these offenses, you will be suspended from school and recommended for expulsion.

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Consequence

Threat / Intimidation 

An incident where there was no physical contact between the offender and victim, but the victim reasonably believed that physical harm could have occurred based on verbal threats of physical harm, which are made in person, electronically, or through any other means.  Florida Administrative Code Rule 6A-1.0017.

Saying something or acting in a way that makes another person feel like they might get hurt, even though no one actually touched them. This could
be through words or actions that make them think they might be harmed. It doesn't matter if
these threats are said face-to-face, online, or any other way.

This includes but is not limited to:

  • Threatening to harm someone and planning how to do it or trying to do it

  • A social media post with a weapon involved that generates an alert of FortifyFL

  • If the threat causes a controlled campus, lockdown, or community concern

Up to expulsion.

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