School building entrances required to be locked

(a) Each public school operated by an LEA, public charter school, private school, and church-related school shall ensure that all exterior doors leading into a school building are locked at all times and access to school buildings is limited to the school’s primary entrance, unless otherwise determined by school policy, to prevent unauthorized entry into the school building while students are present during the school day as well as when students are present outside of regular school hours for school-related purposes or activities. Ask a legal question, get an answer ASAP!(1) The legal authority of a court to hear and decide a case. Concurrent jurisdiction exists when two courts have simultaneous responsibility for the same case. (2) The geographic area over which the court has authority to decide cases.Person: includes a corporation, firm, company or association. See Tennessee Code 1-3-105State: when applied to the different parts of the United States, includes the District of Columbia and the several territories of the United States. See Tennessee Code 1-3-105written: includes printing, typewriting, engraving, lithography, and any other mode of representing words and letters. See Tennessee Code 1-3-105Year: means a calendar year, unless otherwise expressed. See Tennessee Code 1-3-105(b) Notwithstanding subsection (a), outside of regular school hours, a public school operated by an LEA, public charter school, private school, or church-related school may unlock the door to the school building’s primary entrance during a school-related event or activity if the door is continuously monitored by a school or LEA employee who is physically present at the door to ensure access is limited to only authorized persons and to alert others if an unauthorized person enters, or attempts to enter, the school building. (c) State and local law enforcement personnel are authorized to inspect a door serving as an entrance to, or exit from, an LEA or public charter school building to determine whether the door is locked as required by subsection (a). There is no limit on the number of inspections law enforcement personnel may conduct under this subsection (c). Except as provided in subsection (b), if law enforcement personnel find that the door to an entrance or exit from a school building is unlocked in violation of subsection (a), then the school must immediately lock the door and the law enforcement agency that found the unlocked door shall, within twenty-four (24) hours, send written notification to: (1) The LEA’s director of schools or the leader of the public charter school, as applicable; (2) The chair of the local board of education or public charter school governing body, as applicable; (3) The head of the parent-teacher organization for the LEA or public charter school, if there is such an organization for the public charter school; (4) The school principal; (5) The department of safety; (6) The department of education; and (7) Each local law enforcement agency with jurisdiction. (d) The LEA’s director of schools, the leader of the public charter school, or their respective designees, shall, within forty-eight (48) hours of receiving notification from the law enforcement agency under subsection (c), send written confirmation to the notifying law enforcement agency that the door was immediately locked as required by subsection (a) and that processes are in place to ensure that the door remains locked as required by subsection (a), except as authorized in subsection (b). The director, leader, or their respective designee shall send a copy of the director’s, leader’s, or their respective designee’s written confirmation to the recipients identified in subdivisions (c)(2)-(7). The director’s, leader’s, or their respective designee’s written confirmation must state whether the LEA or public charter school has a full-time school resource officer whose primary location is the school found to be in violation of subsection (a). (e) (1) If an LEA or public charter school is found to have violated subsection (a) on two (2) or more occasions in one (1) school year, then: (A) (i) If the LEA or public charter school does not currently have a school resource officer whose primary location is the school found to have violated subsection (a) on two (2) or more occasions in one (1) school year, the LEA or public charter school shall cause a full-time school resource officer or armed school security officer to be posted at the school. The LEA or public charter school shall bear the cost of posting the school resource officer or armed school security officer. The school resource officer or armed school security officer must be posted at the school within thirty (30) days from the date on which the LEA or public charter school received notification under subsection (d) of the school’s second violation of subsection (a). The LEA or public charter school shall notify the commissioner of education that the required school resource officer or