School Safety Expert Witness Services
School Security Expert Witness
Dr. Kenneth S. Trump provides school security expert witness and litigation consulting services for plaintiff and defense attorneys engaged in PreK-12 school safety cases. With over 40 years of experience in school security, Dr. Trump offers authoritative insights into incidents involving school violence, negligence, liability, and school safety standard of care issues.
Plaintiff & Defense · State & Federal Courts · Mediation & Arbitration
40+
Years in school safety and security
50
States where Ken has trained and consulted
4×
Invited Congressional witness on school safety
450
Articles, plus three books and five chapters
Litigation Support
School Safety Expert Witness Services
Ken 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, negligent supervision, and other school crime, violence, security, crisis/emergency preparedness standard of care 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. He is an experienced speaker, teacher, news commentator and personal communicator on school safety, security, and emergency preparedness issues.
If you are representing a client in a school safety-related lawsuit and require expert analysis to evaluate your case, contact Dr. Kenneth S. Trump today for a consultation.
Areas of Expertise
School Security Expert Witness Areas of Expertise
Ken is experienced as 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, negligent supervision, and other school safety and security standard of care cases.
Litigation issues may include, but not necessarily be limited to:
- PreK-12 school crime, violence, and serious disciplinary incidentsViolence & Victimization
- School shootings, school active shooter/mass shooter events, wrongful death, and related casesViolence & Victimization
- Assaults, gang violence, and other injuriesViolence & Victimization
- Rape and other sexual assaultsViolence & Victimization
- 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.Emergency Preparedness & Threats
- Crisis and emergency preparedness plans, procedures, training, drills, exercises, teams, and first responder interactionsEmergency Preparedness & Threats
- Student negligent supervision related to crime, violence, and related safety incidentsSupervision, Bullying & Training
- Bullying, intimidation, harassment, and related behaviorsSupervision, Bullying & Training
- Teacher and other school staff assaults, sexual assaults, other crime and violence victimizationViolence & Victimization
- School employee school safety, security, emergency preparedness and related trainingSupervision, Bullying & Training
- Physical security hardware, product, and technology (access control, visitor management, communications, mass communications, emergency apps, etc.) use in schoolsSecurity Operations & Technology
- Metal detectors, weapons detection, surveillance cameras, and other security equipment program implementationSecurity Operations & Technology
- School safety, security, and emergency/crisis preparedness best practices, policies, regulations, and proceduresEmergency Preparedness & Threats
- School athletic event and special event security and emergency preparedness (violence at football games, basketball games, dances, special events, etc.)Events & Youth Programs
- School threat assessment, management, and responseEmergency Preparedness & Threats
- School security and police department operationsSecurity Operations & Technology
- Hiring, training, supervision, and evaluation of school security officers, guards, and school policeSecurity Operations & Technology
- School bus transportation assaults, shootings, sexual assaults, and other violenceViolence & Victimization
- School crime and incident reporting, investigationSecurity Operations & Technology
- Student child abductions, non-custodial parent incidentsViolence & Victimization
- Safety, security and emergency preparedness issues in before-school, after-school, summer school, pre-school, child care, and related youth and educational service programsEvents & Youth Programs
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Services
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.
Providing Guidance When It Matters Most
Trusted Expert Witness Services
With decades of national experience, Dr. Kenneth S. Trump provides expert testimony and litigation consulting on school safety, security, and emergency preparedness. Reliable, experience and research-based, and courtroom-tested.
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.
A biographical summary for Kenneth S. Trump, Ed.D., is available on this site.
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Additional background information, along with expert witness services fee information, may be obtained following an initial free intake consultation call. Contact by e-mail or (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.