The National Rifle Association announced a plan for armed civilians in schools. Brentwood's school superintendent had no comment, but the police chief discussed school security in a meeting Thursday night.
The National Rifle Association announced a plan for armed civilians in schools. Brentwood's school superintendent had no comment, but the police chief discussed school security in a meeting Thursday night.
In today's press conference in Washington DC, the National Rifle Association broke its weeklong silence following the horrific shooting of 26 people at a school in Newtown, CT, and called for a surge of gun-carrying "good guys" around American schools. NRA Executive Vice President Wayne LaPierre called for a new kind of American domestic security revolving around armed civilians, arguing that "the only thing that stops a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun." Brentwood School Superintendent David Faulkner declined to comment on the NRA announcement. "It is not my place to comment on this position statement at this time," Faulkner said in an email to Patch. "I really do appreciate that you understand why we are keeping our security …
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A meeting of the Safe Schools Partnership Program Thursday produced meaningful discussions on other ways to prevent a repeat of the school shooting in Connecticut.
Law enforcement and school district officials said a meeting of the Safe Schools Partnership program Thursday morning produced meaningful discussions about ways the two groups can work together to improve safety at St. Louis area schools in the wake of last week’s tragic shooting in Newtown, Connecticut. “It was a very frank and open conversation between law enforcement and school officials about what can we do, what else can we do,” Fitch said in an interview with Patch after the meeting, which involved police departments and school districts from across the St. Louis area. Fitch made national headlines earlier this week when he put forward the idea of arming school officials as a way of deterring future mass shootings. School leaders at …
8:55 am on Friday, December 21, 2012
"At this point, I don’t suspect we will have this conversation again about arming school officials until the next school shooting.” A chilling and sadly true statement by law enforcement. There is a a new security issue in our schools that must be addressed. The only thing that will address insane criminals entering schol buildings and killing our women and children is if they are met with … more ›
All safety policies and procedures will be reviewed with a new perspective.
Friday's mass shooting of 20 children and six adults at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, CT, has prompted the Brentwood School District to seek input from every school community member. Brentwood Superintendent David Faulkner listed steps the school district is taking in response to the tragedy: In response to the events at Sandy Hook, we have invited every member of our school community to provide input on ways that we could improve our procedures and facilities. Each principal has communicated with his or her staff, the entire administrative team has met, and I have met with the Board of Education. Our current and former school resource officers have met with individual principals, and our district safety officer will be …
The director of communications said safety procedures are reviewed throughout the year.
Maplewood Richmond Heights schools are making slight changes, immediately, in response to the mass shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary in Connecticut. MRH Director of Communications Brian Adkisson outlined how the district is responding to the tragedy. Reviewing (and modifying) our safety procedures within the District is an ongoing process that we do throughout the year. Incidents such as the tragic shooting in Connecticut on Friday makes those reviews take on even more importance. Right now we are reviewing our existing policies and procedures with our staff and local police departments. The one change we have made is locking the doors at the ECC a bit earlier than was previously done (all of our campuses have doors that are locked …
Mr. Completely
8:13 pm on Sunday, December 23, 2012
Jack Bock: Its not Chief Disbennets problem. Its a security issue within the school building that needs to be taken seriously by the school board. This threat keeps getting kicked around between gun banners, NRA, media, police, school supers, teachers, you and me and nothing is being accomplished. There are a handful of people here locally that could tell the school districts how to begin a … more ›