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 to a School - ZERO TOLERANCE

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

Offense

Code Definition

Simplified Definition

Consequence

Threats to School

There is ZERO TOLERANCE for threats to school.

Making a threat or false report of a threat that involves the school or school personnel's property, school transportation, or a school-sponsored activity. This is a zero-tolerance offense under Section 1006.13, Florida Statutes. This offense includes, but is not limited to, threats to throw, project, place, or discharge any destructive device; false reports concerning planting a bomb, an explosive, or weapon of mass destruction, or concerning the use of firearms in a violent manner. 

Saying or doing something that threatens the school, school bus, or school activity that may be said out loud, hinted at, or even posted online or sent in messages.

This may include but is not limited to:

  • Making a bomb threat or threatening to harm people

  • Social media posts involving a weapon that generates an alert with FortifyFL

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

Up to expulsion for not less than one year.

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