Several state legislatures have passed laws requiring schools to have panic buttons or similar emergency alert systems, often dubbed “Alyssa’s Law” based upon advocacy by a Florida parent who lost her daughter in the Parkland school shooting. A number of states have passed laws requiring all schools to have police officers or armed “guardians.” There […]
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Ken Trump’s Blog
- Superintendents can learn a critical school safety lesson from the now-former Secret Service director: You can handle an investigation properly, but you may lose your job if you bungle the communications
- From the White House to the schoolhouse, there is no perfect security – but by focusing on human factors, we can reduce risks
- School security market data versus independent research data: Strategic school safety leaders need to know the difference
- What’s in a title? The masked and misleading titles and biographies of school safety presenters
- Panic over panic buttons, guardians galore, and other school safety “legislation by anecdote”: Why lobbying based upon single incidents and high-profile tragedies does not necessarily make good school safety law.