More School Districts Purchasing Active Shooter Insurance
Seven South Florida school districts have bought $3 million worth of active shooter insurance in the wake of the Parkland shooting.
Seven South Florida school districts have bought $3 million worth of active shooter insurance in the wake of the Parkland shooting.
Parents turned their 15-year-old son into police after he told them he was planning to carry out a shooting at Paw Paw High School.
The school resource officer exchanged gunfire with the student shooter after he shot two other students, one fatally.
This summer’s Campus Safety Conference Texas will address a wide range of vital K-12 and higher education safety and security issues, including hurricane response and recovery, protests, threat assessments, active shooters, emergency notification, sexual assault, Clery compliance and more.
In September 2016, two school counselors and a school resource officer concluded Nikolas Cruz should be forcibly committed for psychiatric evaluation.
The Senate Judiciary Committee also held a hearing to discuss failures made by the FBI and law enforcement in acting on warning signs displayed by the Parkland gunman.
A parent says the teacher, who is also a reserve police officer, told the class he was going to use the gun for a demonstration on disarming a gunman when it went off.
The gunshot detection technology essentially works like a fire alarm, with sensors that are placed throughout a building that go off if a gunshot is detected and confirmed.
The new records discount school resource officer Scot Peterson’s claim that he did not enter the building because he believed the gunfire was coming from outside the school.
An active shooter response standard such as NFPA 3000 was first proposed after the Pulse Nightclub shooting in 2016.