School Safety Audit Questions

Yes.  The 2013 General Assembly passed legislation (HB 2346) mandating the Virginia Center for School and Campus Safety to develop a school safety and vulnerability checklist for schools to use and mandating schools to conduct an annual walk-through inspection using these checklists.  View the Guidance for use of the School Safety Inspection Checklist here.

Your superintendent may designate other specific tasks to be completed in addition to the School Safety Survey.

The legislation concerning school safety audits changed in July 2005 giving total responsibility for the content and analysis of the school safety audit process to the Virginia Center for School and Campus Safety. The Virginia Department of Education no longer has legislative oversight of this process. The School Safety Protocol Checklists published by VDOE in 1997 are no longer necessary and you do not have to send certification to VDOE on their completion.