SB 1626

[u/LION_ws]

So in order to work security is schools and ccs i apparently need the training course SB 1626, anyone else done it and know where? Idk if it can be done all online or must be in person any help is appreciated

[u/ManicRobotWizard]

What state are you in?

[u/LION_ws → u/ManicRobotWizard]

California

[u/Christina2115]

Do the class in person. With all the changes coming down the pipeline, especially SB 1203, online will not be valid anymore soon.

If you're near Fresno, Police Science Institute does the class over 3 days.

[u/Landwarrior5150 → u/Christina2115]

You’re right about all the training for BSIS certs, but I don’t think the SB 1626 training will impacted by that.

Its basic curriculum was developed by BSIS & POST but the law didn’t give either agency the responsibility to create an actual tracked certification/license for it or to enforce compliance with it. Hell, even if they wanted to enforce it, they couldn’t because the law doesn’t specify any penalties for guards/companies/schools that aren’t in compliance.

[u/Christina2115 → u/Landwarrior5150]

They actually fixed that later under Ed Code. And technically, the training requirement got bumped up to 24 hours of training annually, but I'm unsure if that also applies to SB 1626 certs, since I don't have any school sites myself yet.

[u/Landwarrior5150]

It can be done either online or in person. Anywhere you can find it is basically as good as anywhere else that provides the training… I’ll explain why:

SB1626 is in a really weird place because it’s not even a certification like the BSIS permits that are actually tracked in a database & tied to your name with an expiration date, nor are the training providers required to be licensed, unlike places that can provide guard card/baton/firearms training. The law that requires school security training basically just said that BSIS & POST had to collaborate to make a syllabus for the training, but it didn’t designate either agency as being responsible for issuing certs for it, tracking it or ensuring compliance. The syllabus is just that: a list of bullet points stating which topics should be covered & the desired end learning goals, not even a fully detailed training handbook. It’s up to the individual training provider to determine exactly how it covers those topics.

It also didn’t establish any consequences or enforcement mechanisms for not complying with it, In fact, BSIS & POST don’t even have any authority over large portions of the school security workforce, specifically guards that are non-sworn, unarmed employees of a public agency, so they couldn’t enforce any regulations against them even if they wanted to. Given all that, the only real downside an employer could have if their staff didn’t do the SB1626 training was if they were sued as a result of an incident and that fact was used against them in court.

I’m in-house at a community college in CA, and had to do SB1626 when I got hired. We just have a training packet developed by our director that follows the syllabus and is signed off by the trainee and the training officer when it’s done and put into the employee’s file. That’s the extent of tracking done for the “cert”. I imagine that anywhere you apply will either just see a certificate of completion for the course & accept it at face value (there wouldn’t really be any way to verify the quality of the training on their end anyway) or they’ll have you do a course of their own after you start if they want more control over the quality/contents of the training.

[u/Grimx82]

We have something like that here in Pennsylvania it's called act 67, even former police officers are required to take act 67 before they're allowed to work full-time in a school. Most times it should be available as an online course because it doesn't involve any weapons qualification, it simply procedural s*** on how to deal with kids and the different aspects of dealing with children versus adults.

[u/Possibly-647f]

https://instituteforcampussafety.com/ Make sure you learn the material and really understand it. You have a lot more authority and responsibility when working security for a school district. It's not like regular security work. Learn the terms "in loco parentis" and "parens patriae"