House committee advances school interoperability bill after debate over law-enforcement role
Representative Gress framed SB1315 as an agency-driven, vendor-agnostic measure to create minimum interoperability standards for school emergency communications. Representative Gutierrez opposed the bill, warning it could let law enforcement choose which schools to partner with; the Committee of the Whole recommended the bill as amended.
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Representative Gress, the measure’s floor sponsor, told the Committee of the Whole that Senate Bill 13-15 is an Arizona Department of Education agency bill to set baseline requirements for interoperability systems used in school emergencies and is not intended to favor any vendor. "This is vendor agnostic," Gress said, arguing the bill requires only a basic set of functions so law enforcement and schools have reliable, consistent tools in a campus emergency.
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