Schools must give police blueprints ALBANY - Schools will be required to submit copies of their building plans to local police and fire departments under legislation recently signed into law by Gov. George Pataki. The legislation, proposed by Assemblyman Ronald Canestrari, D-Cohoes, was inspired by last year's shootings at Columbine High School. Canestrari said police at the scene in Colorado did not have floor plans for the school building, which slowed their response to the tragedy. When he introduced the bill last year, Canestrari said a spot check of school districts in the Capital Region showed that some already share building plans with local public safety officials. But others did not, and there was no such mandate in state law, he said. Canestrari's "School Emergency Preparedness Act," sponsored in the Senate by Vincent Leibell, R-Patterson, is to take effect in March 2001. -- Steve Furlong, Computer Condottiere Have GNU, will travel 518-374-4720 sfurlong@acmenet.net