School Safety and Security Expert Witness Litigation Consulting Services

 

Dr. Kenneth S. Trump provides experienced, accessible, timely, and quality school safety and security expert witness services to plaintiff and defense attorneys on PreK-12 school safety and security litigation cases.

He is experienced as a school security expert witness on mass school shootings, school active shooter and other wrongful deaths, violent assaults with serious injuries, rape and other sexual assaults, and other school crime, violence, security, crisis/emergency preparedness, and related cases.

Ken provides school security expert witness services to attorneys involved in state and federal court litigation, mediation, arbitration, and legal counsel guidance to public, charter, and private independent schools.

Ken is an experienced speaker, teacher, news commentator and personal communicator on school safety, security and emergency preparedness issues.

School Security Expert Witness: Experienced, Credentialed, and Credible

Ken served as an officer, investigator and gang unit supervisor for the Cleveland City Schools’ safety division, and as a suburban school security director and assistant gang task force director. During his more than 40 years in school safety he has trained and consulted with school and public safety officials from 50 states and internationally.

Ken earned a Doctor of Education (Ed.D.) degree from the Johns Hopkins University School of Education with a research focus on the intersection of school administrator strategic crisis leadership with school safety communications in highly ambiguous and uncertain contexts. Ken also earned Master of Public Administration and Bachelor of Social Services (Criminal Justice Concentration) degrees from Cleveland State University, and he has more than 2,500 hours of specialized training. He is the author, co-author and/or editor of three books, five book chapters and 450 articles on school safety. He appears regularly in national and international news.

Ken is a four-time invited Congressional witness on school safety and emergency preparedness, and testified on bullying to the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights. He has also presented on school security and emergency/crisis preparedness to the Sandy Hook Advisory Commission, New Jersey School Security Task Force, Oklahoma Commission on School Security, Education Commission of the States, Council of State Governments, National Governors Association, National Lieutenant Governors Association, National Association of Attorneys General, FBI National Academy, Department of Defense Education Activity, National School Boards Association, and others.

School Safety Expert Witness and Litigation Consulting Services

Testifying and/or Non-Testifying Services may include, but not be limited to:

Case Evaluation: A review of facts and issues with recommendations for further action on the case.  Deposition reviews and evaluation of opposing expert reports.

Case Consultation: Advice on theory development, potential action, pleadings, discovery, public records searches, deposition questioning, and related case work

Testifying School Safety Expert Witness: Preparation of expert reports, deposition testifying, and trial testifying

Ken’s services can help plaintiff and defense attorneys evaluate and focus their approach to a case, potentially saving attorneys and clients thousands of dollars and time in unnecessary efforts.

School Security Expert Witness Areas of Expertise

Ken is experienced an expert on mass school shootings, school active shooter and other wrongful deaths, school stabbings, gang violence, violent assaults with serious injuries, rape and other sexual assaults, and other school safety and security cases.

Litigation issues might include, but not necessarily be limited to:

  • PreK-12 school crime, violence, and serious disciplinary incidents
  • School shootings, school active shooter/mass shooter events, wrongful death, and related cases
  • Assaults, gang violence, and other injuries
  • Rape and other sexual assaults
  • Injuries and incidents arising from school active shooter drills (such as Run, Hide, Fight; ALICE; etc.), lockdown drills, other emergency/crisis/safety drills, training for such drills, etc.
  • Crisis and emergency preparedness plans, procedures, training, drills, exercises, teams, and first responder interactions
  • Student supervision related to crime, violence, and related safety incidents
  • Bullying, intimidation, harassment, and related behaviors
  • Teacher and other school staff assaults, sexual assaults, other crime and violence victimization
  • School employee school safety, security, emergency preparedness and related training
  • Physical security hardware, product, and technology (access control, visitor management, communications, mass communications, emergency apps, etc.) use in schools
  • Metal detectors, weapons detection, surveillance cameras, and other security equipment program implementation
  • School safety, security, and emergency/crisis preparedness best practices, policies, regulations, and procedures
  • School athletic event and special event security and emergency preparedness (violence at football games, basketball games, dances, special events, etc.)
  • School threat assessment, management, and response
  • School security and police department operations
  • Hiring, training, supervision, and evaluation of school security officers, guards, and school police
  • School bus transportation assaults, shootings, sexual assaults, and other violence
  • School crime and incident reporting, investigation
  • Student child abductions, non-custodial parent incidents
  • Safety, security and emergency preparedness issues in before-school, after-school, summer school, pre-school, child care, and related youth and educational service programs

For Additional Information or to Discuss a Case

biographical summary for Kenneth S. Trump, Ed.D., is available on this site. Additional background information, along with expert witness services fee information, may be obtained by e-mail or by calling (216) 251-3067.

Note: Dr. Kenneth S. Trump’s name, biographical information, company name and/or any other information related to him or his services may not be used in any litigation case matters without a formal contract for services having been executed between him and contracting legal counsel. This includes naming him as an expert on a case when such services have not been formally contracted.