Florida school mapping law
What Florida requires of school districts on floor plans and mapping data: who gets them, when they're updated, what the state grant pays for and who can see them.
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Does Florida require school floor plans?
Yes, from each district superintendent. Each district school superintendent must give the law enforcement agency and fire department with jurisdiction a copy of the floor plans and other relevant documents for each educational facility in the district. A State Board of Education rule, SREF 2014 (State Requirements for Educational Facilities), repeats that duty for each school board. The rule that brings in SREF 2014, R. 6A-2.0010, makes it binding on facilities built by school boards.
How often must floor plans be updated?
By October 1 each year, the superintendent must submit revised floor plans and other relevant documents for each educational facility that was modified during the preceding year. SREF 2014 sets the same October 1 update: revised floor plans for facilities modified in the preceding year go to the law enforcement agency and fire department with jurisdiction.
What is the School Mapping Data Grant Program?
Florida law creates a School Mapping Data Grant Program within the Department of Education. Each school district, in consultation with local law enforcement and public safety agencies, may apply for program funds to provide mapping data for each public school, including charter schools. Applying is optional. Districts use the funds to meet some or all of the section's requirements, which may include hiring a vendor to provide the data. The entity producing the data must give it to the school district and to local law enforcement and public safety agencies for emergencies and for required drills.
What must the mapping data show?
| Under the grant program section, school mapping data must | Source |
|---|---|
| Be in an electronic or digital format to help first responders | s. 1013.13(2)(a) |
| Work with public safety agencies' software, with no extra software purchase or viewing fee | s. 1013.13(2)(b)1. |
| Work with the school's own security software, with no extra software purchase by law enforcement or the district | s. 1013.13(2)(b)2. |
| Be printable and, on request, also come as a digital file for interactive mobile platforms | s. 1013.13(2)(b)3. |
| Be checked by a walk-through of buildings and grounds, oriented true north and overlaid on current aerial imagery | s. 1013.13(2)(b)4.-6. |
| Label rooms, hallways, external doors and stairwells, hazards, critical utilities, key boxes, AEDs (defibrillators) and trauma kits | s. 1013.13(2)(b)7. |
| Label the grounds (parking areas, athletic fields, surrounding roads, neighboring properties) and be overlaid with gridded x and y coordinates | s. 1013.13(2)(b)8.-9. |
How is the grant funded?
The Legislature appropriated $14 million in nonrecurring General Revenue for the program for fiscal year 2023-24. The 2024-25 budget carried the unspent balance of that $14 million forward to fiscal year 2024-25 for the same purpose.
Do the maps connect to 911?
Subject to an appropriation, the Department of Education, working with the Department of Management Services, must identify a centralized system for 911 call centers that can receive panic alerts and integrate digital maps used by public schools, charter schools and other educational institutions. That system must display digital school maps to law enforcement and emergency responders in real time. Digital maps required under s. 1013.13 must also be integrated with the centralized system. The 2025-26 budget gave the Department of Education $450,000 in nonrecurring funds to carry out that centralized system. The 2026-27 budget gives $450,000 in recurring funds for it, and unspent 2025-26 money for the Centralization of Panic Alert Systems was carried forward to 2026-27. The Department of Education says SaferWatch was selected to implement the state's centralized alert platform. It also says a May 29, 2026 memo announced FLSCAP (the Florida Statewide Centralized Alert Platform) to school districts, school safety specialists and 911 call centers.
Are school floor plans confidential?
Building plans, blueprints, schematic drawings and diagrams showing the internal layout of a structure owned or operated by an agency are exempt from public-records disclosure. Those plans may be shared with another government entity that needs them to do its job, and anyone who receives them must keep them exempt. A security or firesafety system plan, which includes schematic diagrams relating directly to a facility's physical security or firesafety, is confidential and exempt for property owned or leased by the state or a local government.
Has the law changed recently?
The grant program was created by CS/CS/HB 301 (2023), which became chapter 2023-99, approved May 17, 2023 and effective July 1, 2023. The history note for s. 1013.13 ends with chapter 2023-99, so the section was not amended in 2024, 2025 or 2026. Chapter 2025-58 added the requirement that certain digital maps be integrated with the centralized system; it was approved May 21, 2025 and took effect July 1, 2025.
How can QuickSecure help?
QuickSecure builds your campus floor plans in Nexus from your building drawings. They show every room by name, every door and exit, and where your AEDs, fire extinguishers and fire alarms are.
Administrators can open the plans in the dashboard at any time.
In a Lockdown, Nexus shows on the floor plan which rooms are secured.
Dispatch sends the building, address and room to 911 through RapidSOS.
This is not a statement that any product satisfies Florida's requirements; that reading belongs to your district and its counsel.