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State legislators in Virginia have passed a bill requiring threat assessment teams at public colleges and universities to notify police within 24 hours of identifying someone as posing “an articulable and significant threat.”
The requirement calls for campus police to be notified along with police in the city or county where the college is located. Police in the jurisdiction where the individual deemed to be a threat lives or is known to be located also must be notified.
Public colleges and universities also must obtain any criminal history and health records of individuals considered a threat.
The bill, which awaits the signature of Governor Glenn Youngkin, sets forth the new requirements after a University of Virginia student in November shot and killed three classmates who were members of the university’s football team.
A 2008 Virginia law, which was passed after the shooting at Virginia Tech in which 32 people were killed, requires public colleges and universities to establish threat assessment teams, including law enforcement officers, mental health professionals and student affairs and human resources representatives, to assess and intervene when individuals display behavior considered to be a safety concern.
