(a) The Department of Public Safety, Division of Emergency Management, and the Center for Safer Schools shall construct and maintain a statewide School Risk and Response Management System (SRRMS). The system shall fully integrate and leverage existing data and applications that support school risk planning, exercises, monitoring, and emergency response via 911 dispatch.

(b) In constructing the SRRMS, the Division of Emergency Management, in collaboration with the Department of Public Instruction and the Center for Safer Schools, shall leverage the existing enterprise risk management database, the School Risk Management Planning tool managed by the Division of Emergency Management. The Division of Emergency Management shall also leverage the public school unit and participating nonpublic school schematic diagrams of school facilities. Where technically feasible, the SRRMS shall integrate any anonymous tip lines established pursuant to N.C. Gen. Stat. § 115C-105.51 and any 911-initiated panic alarm systems authorized as part of a SRMP pursuant to N.C. Gen. Stat. § 115C-47(40). The Division of Emergency Management shall collaborate with the Department of Public Instruction, the Center for Safer Schools, and the North Carolina 911 Board in the design, implementation, and maintenance of the SRRMS.

(c) All data and information acquired and stored in the SRRMS as provided in subsections (a) and (b) of this section are not considered public records as the term “public record” is defined under N.C. Gen. Stat. § 132-1 and shall not be subject to inspection and examination under N.C. Gen. Stat. § 132-6 (2015-241, s. 8.26(c); 2018-97, s. 2.4(b); 2023-78, ss. 1, 4(b).)