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ESC Region 12 and U.S. Secret Service Sponsor Safe School Initiative
Over 175 law enforcement professionals, community service providers, and P-16 administrators and counselors attended the Safe School Initiative sponsored by the United States Secret Service (U.S.S.S.) and ESC Region 12. The session featured U.S.S.S. speaker Arthur J. Kelly III, whose presentation covered the findings from the Safe School Initiative and preventing targeted violence in schools. Participants received materials to help schools and communities better understand school-based attacks and assist in developing strategies to prevent violence. In response to concern about the safety of America’s schools and school children from acts of targeted violence in school, the U.S.S.S. and U.S. Department of Education conducted the Safe School Initiative - an operational analysis of school-based attacks in the U.S. The primary goal of the Safe School Initiative has been to provide information about the thinking and behaviors of students who have planned and carried out instances of targeted violence in American schools. The session included a review of the Safe School Initiative, a presentation of two school shooting case studies, and a discussion of threat assessment for evaluating the risk a student, which may pose for of targeted violence in school. In the mid 1990’s, the U.S.S.S. National Threat Assessment Center (NTAC) completed an operational study of the behavior of persons who attacked or attempted to attack a prominent public official or public figure during the last several decades. This study led the agency to modify and improve their approach to threat assessment as it related to the protection of our national and world leaders. After several school shootings in 1998 and 1999, the U.S.S.S., in partnership with the U.S. Department of Education, began a similar operational study of school shootings. The goal of the Safe School Initiative was to gather and analyze accurate and useful information about the behavior and thinking of students who commit acts of targeted violence in our nation’s schools. Based on the findings of this study, the U.S. Secret Service concluded that some school attacks may be preventable, and has since sponsored numerous seminars and training sessions across the country, sharing the results of the Safe School Initiative with school officials, local law enforcement, and other professionals responsible for the prevention of targeted school violence. Sponsors of the event included: ESC Region 12, U.S. Department of Education, McLennan County Sheriff’s Office, and U.S. Secret Service . |
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The Education Service Center Region 12 does
not discriminate on the basis of race, color, national origin,
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