Category: school safety

Irvine Police Department Shares Efforts Made to Create Safe School Environment

IRVINE, Calif.—To boost residents’ confidence in public safety considering recent events involving gun violence, the Irvine Police Department shared plans with the community to prevent and respond to threats to schools on June 9. Officers discussed public safety programs and tools used by Irvine’s school district to protect students from active shooting incidents. “Our commitment…


Parents Need to Get Serious About School Safety, Parkland Dad Says After Uvalde

The families of 19 children and two teachers who were slain on May 24 in Uvalde, Texas, spent last week at funeral homes and gravesites, saying goodbye to their loved ones. “The parents are destroyed. Heartbroken. They’re never going to be the same again—ever,” Andy Pollack told The Epoch Times. Pollack’s 18-year-old daughter Meadow was…


Tennessee Governor Signs Executive Order to Enhance School Safety, Calls for ‘Single Point of Entry’

Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee signed an executive order on Monday to ensure working safety protocols at schools, and to evaluate training for law enforcement for handling active shooter scenarios, in a bid to fortify school security across the state after the recent mass shooting at a school in Texas in which 21 people were killed. “Parents need…