Law Enforcement Response to Mandatory and Presumptive Referrals Sample Clauses

Law Enforcement Response to Mandatory and Presumptive Referrals. A. Prompt Response The local police department and the county prosecutor’s office agree to treat all matters involving suspected or confirmed hate crimes or bias-related acts occurring on school property or involving school-aged children as serious matters that warrant a prompt, decisive, and thorough law enforcement response. The local police depart- ment and/or the county prosecutor’s office agree to respond promptly to any referral made pursuant to Section 3 of this Addendum provided, however, that the police department or the prosecutor’s office will immediately dispatch an officer to the scene of a suspected school-based hate crime or bias-related act where the building principal or school superintendent has conveyed the fact that the suspected act involved actual violence against a student or involves a threat against the life of a student, school employee, or any other person. Furthermore, the police department and the county prosecutor’s office agree to respond as soon as possible to any sus- pected incident involving bias-based graffiti or other such evidence so that such graffiti or other evidence can be photographed or otherwise documented in accor- dance with the provisions of Section 4 of this Addendum so that the graffiti or other evidence can be removed or otherwise destroyed at the earliest possible opportunity in order to minimize continued exposure and harm to the student population. Any suspected or confirmed hate crime reportable as a “bias incident” under the New Jersey Bias Incident Investigation Standards promulgated by the Attorney General shall be reported by the local police department or the county prosecutor’s office to the Office of Bias Crimes and Community Relations, Division of Criminal Justice, and to the State Police Uniform Crime Reporting Unit or the State Police Central Security Unit, as required by the standards.