you re going to have parents flocking to the scene. so schools have an amazing amount of challenges along with their first responders to deal with parents coming right away, text messaging, misinformation, parent/student reunification, plus handling the actual incident itself so make sure they neutralize the threat. very briefly, what about magnetometers in schools? it sounds like a quick fix, but the devils are in the details of implementation. time and labor intensive. you can still get a weapon in. someone could come in clean, pass a weapon through a window, come in at night for a basketball practice at 6:00 in the evening, when they re not running, and plant something in the school and pick it up the next day after they got cleared. sounds good, sounds like a quick fix. the first and best line of defense is people. number one way we find out about weapons in schools is when a kid comes forward and tells an adult that they trust, whether that s a teacher, principal or school res
happened. he said the school resource officer did the right thing. can you tell me in general what that might have been? well, having school resource officer, how many incidents like this are actually prevent friday having them there? there are incidents that aren t able to be prevented. obviously you want to stop the person who is doing the attack. you want to lock down the school, get students out of harm s way, immediately call for the ambulances, the additional police support. one of the other dynamics that goes on, carol, at this point in time is the social media, the texting to parents, the phone calls on the cell phones, what s out on twitter, facebook and other things. it s going to cause parents to expedite their return to the school. the parent-student reunification, how do you get
texting information going out very, very quickly. now, some of that misinformation, some of it accurate information. but parents are coming to the school, and schools need to have in their crisis planning a staging area so they can communicate to parents, media accurate information. mass parent notification systems are very common now to get information to tell parents, stay away. there s something active here you need to go to another area where you have parent/student reunification. right now schools are going to be on lockdown, especially when you have a suspect who s out running around, not in custody yet. no one knows where they are. you may have other schools in the area also under lockdown and a possibility that the person could potentially come there. but we know at this time a lot of confusion, police are trying to deal with the emergency itself, look for the suspects. school officials are locking down, securing the kids that are in the building while also trying to figure out