[0:11] all right we still have a few people who are coming in um but I think we'll go [0:17] ahead and get started because we really want to honor your time my name is Stacy [0:23] Stanley I am the superintendent of the dino Public Schools I'm really glad to have you here this evening to learn a [0:32] little bit about our Safety and Security plan to have an opportunity to hear from [0:40] our partnership with our city officials and then really to have an opportunity to connect with one another and to um [0:47] have your questions answered as best we can um as well so I would like to go [0:55] ahead and welcome some of our partners and and our city officials as well as [1:02] our board officials so if board members could stand up please really great to have you [1:09] here we have we have Erica Alber and chair we have Julie green our vice [1:20] chair we have Karen gabler our formal clerk right yeah formal clerk that is [1:28] great and then we have Birdman who is assistant [1:33] Treasurer I got that they really working my friend tonight and then we have Dan [1:40] arum who is assistant clerk all right that is great thanks a lot for being here with us this evening [1:46] and then we are also really happy to have with us this evening our very own mayor mayor Jim [1:57] hubin our city manager Scott Neil [Music] [2:02] we actually have one of our council members here Carolyn [Music] [2:08] Jackson and then really excited to have our chief of police chief Todd [2:14] [Music] melburn and our chief of fire chief [2:20] Andrew [Music] SL I also have with me this evening [2:26] several members of our cabinet um could you either stand or if you look behind [2:32] you you'll see a few people with cabinet members if you could just kind of wave your hand we have our assistant superintendent Dr Randy [2:39] [Music] smle we have Jody D Hubert our director [2:44] of teaching and [Music] learning Sonia sailor our director of [2:51] Human [Music] Resources Dr anarie Leland our director [2:58] of Community Education and strategic Partnerships we have going down the line [3:06] here we have Jody remsey our director of student sport [3:12] Services someone you're going to hear quite a bit from tonight our Natasha [3:17] Mana Staley she is our director of digital media technology services and then JY oh and then we have [3:26] dney Edwards our director of marketing and communication [3:32] and then we have several of our principles here as well principles could you please stand [3:42] up St so we have um our Host this evening [3:48] is um interim Principal Paul pel here at the high school we have Dr [3:57] rickenberg I always say Cara riing bird um from [4:03] Highlands and then we have Dr Carrie delist [4:09] [Music] she we have [4:14] Chris gosh it's the light I always tell people [4:21] it's the light we have Chris holdin our principal of [4:27] normale and I thought I saw a couple of other Paul [4:32] Domer Paul oh oh excellent thank you very much we have um principal Trisha [4:39] Pettis she is from sou schol we have principal Patrick bass he is from valy [4:46] middle school and then we actually have coordinators who did not stand up but [4:52] they oversee our Early Learning Center so Leah and Emily could you please stand [4:58] up and Principal Paul dommer from conquer [5:03] is [Music] here all right now that I have sufficiently introduced everyone um [5:12] again I want to thank you for coming out this evening uh you know our community [5:17] has had some incidents that um have just really left us un unsettled and really [5:24] shaking us um to the core and actually [5:29] every year I need to um set goals and my goals this year were actually around [5:38] Safety and Security and so I started working with director mansas daily last [5:43] spring and she had put together an incredible plan that quite honestly [5:49] you're going to learn really helped us during these situations that [5:58] occurred slow down and we fast talker and we have [6:04] interpreters so part of her plan that you're going to find out about was training that we [6:11] actually had this Summer that really prepared us to be able to handle those [6:17] critical situations we part of her plan also was to actually have a community [6:22] meeting in the fall um we figured that we would have it in October not September to L everyone [6:30] get settled in and unfortunately we had the critical [6:35] incidents occur but I very grateful for director Monas da and the work that she [6:42] has done to really position our district in a way that allowed us to really move [6:49] forward in a strong way around safety so tonight what is going to happen you're [6:54] going to hear from director Manas daily we're going to give you a chance to [6:59] engage with one another a chance to capture your questions we are going to have um our [7:07] city Partners come up and join us we'll have a panel and then again you'll have [7:13] an opportunity to have your questions answered so without further Ado I'm [7:20] going to invite up director Monas [Music] [7:28] da all right thank you Dr Stanley and uh [7:35] thank you everybody for being here uh we know that this was a quick turnaround but as Dr Stanley said we actually did [7:40] start thinking about this and um putting this into action last spring um I have a [7:46] lot of information that I'm going to go over and as Dr Stanley said you'll also have time to engage in some conversation [7:52] and ask some questions as we go through the event so I will try to talk slowly so everybody gets everything um just [7:58] give me a wave if I go you pass how about that so this would be slow that's slow got it all [8:03] right so first and foremost as we get started um I think it's really important to ground ourselves in the fact that [8:09] Edan Public Schools is committed to the Safety and Security of all individuals on our campuses our students our staff [8:17] volunteers community members it is something that we take very seriously and that we think is extremely [8:23] important we know that we cannot prevent all those serious events from happening [8:29] things are going to happen but what we can do is um put in place best practices [8:35] to increase our security posture so one of the things you'll hear a lot from myself and from the panel is [8:41] that we adopt a layered security approach there is not just one thing that we're going to do to make our [8:46] schools safe and if there was I can guarantee that every school district across the country would be doing that [8:51] so we know that we have to put multiple things in place those things like our controlled access and our doorways um [8:58] making sure that our staff staff members are Vigilant about who is in our buildings making sure that we're practicing our emergency response [9:04] protocols and procedures and collaborating with our law enforcement and our Community Partners um and that [9:11] is I will say this um I think the single most important thing that we're doing right now is the collaboration that we [9:16] have with the city of Edina with our police and fire um we are in constant conversation with them and they are [9:22] supporting our work and our efforts to make sure that our community as well as our schools are safe um more than [9:29] anything I want you to know that this work is ongoing so this conversation doesn't stop tonight it isn't that we practice a drill one day and that we're [9:36] done it's something that we are constantly reflecting on constantly learning and growing and making sure that we're getting better because we [9:43] know that these security events can evolve we know that our technology evolves and we know that practices evolve so again this is something that [9:49] we are continually working on so how do we do this right um in [9:56] order to do this we need to put some people in place to help us um make sure that our buildings are secure to put [10:02] these protocols and procedures in place and we have two distinct groups of people that we work with on our security [10:08] practices we have our building Emergency Response Team and those are obviously the people within our buildings that are [10:14] that are enacting our Safety and Security protocols on a day-to-day basis and we have our district Emergency [10:20] Response Team which is our district level team that's going to support and provide um guidance um provide [10:26] communication in the event of an incident your building emergency response teams generally um include your building [10:34] administrators uh custodians uh health services staff front office staff and [10:39] kind of anybody that is designated as assigned by your um by the building [10:46] principles our district emergency response team is our superintendent Dr Stanley and the superintendent's cabinet [10:53] so everybody on the superintendent's cabinet is part of the district Emergency Response Team our director of buildings and grounds and then other any [10:59] other staff as designated depending upon the event and those two teams work [11:05] together in any sort of event providing communication staying in constant conversation and contact to make sure [11:11] that we can support everyone throughout our edena Public Schools [11:18] Community as Dr Stanley mentioned um last spring we had the opportunity to [11:23] partner with the I love you guys Foundation um this Foundation the I love you guys Foundation was was established [11:29] in 2006 by Ellen and John Michael keys after a tragic um event at plat Canyon [11:36] High School in Colorado and through this Foundation um John Michael and Ellen [11:41] created and established a set of resources and training materials for crisis response and post crisis [11:48] reunification and for us theana Public Schools it was important that we were able to find those practices procedures [11:55] methodologies that would increase our security posture and we found that and the I love you guys [12:00] Foundation the I love you guys Foundation has two basic components our standard reun unific or sorry our [12:07] standard response protocol which is how we respond to an incident and our standard reunification method which is [12:13] our post crisis how we reunify our students with their families I love you guys Foundation is [12:20] used in more than 45,000 school districts or not sorry not school districts but school districts organizations departments um and those [12:28] are just ones we know because the nice thing about the I love you guys Foundation is all of their resources and all their materials are available for [12:34] free and so these could really be used by multiple districts and organizations across the country that we might not [12:40] know about these are research based practices they have gathered um Community Partners [12:46] they've gathered emergency response Personnel Public Safety experts families which is critical and students and First [12:53] Responders to develop this training and develop this procedures and processes that we use today public [13:00] schools on August 4th uh the district leadership team which is about I would [13:06] say would you say 60 members um across our school district our principes our directors our cabinet level teams got [13:13] together with the I love you guys Foundation the trainer and actually received the full training on the [13:18] standard response protocol and standard reunification method and I think from [13:23] that training came a lot of change came a lot of reflection and came a and came a lot learning from our [13:30] district we also have since then provided training for all of our staff and we did this via our district [13:36] mandated trainings and also our building trainings our building principles do a lot of work with their teams on training [13:42] on the standard response protocol as well as the standard reunification method so I want to go over a couple [13:49] parts of this because I think that the most important thing about the IU Foundation is the consistency of [13:55] language and so we have what we call our standard response protocol otherwise known as our safe conditions and some of [14:02] these you have probably heard before and some of these might be new so I think it's important for All Families to [14:07] understand when their child comes home and they say that we were in a hold what did that mean what happened in the [14:13] school building during that time so I'm going to go through these just to to give you an idea and again you'll have [14:18] some time to kind of talk about some of this in a little bit so the first safe condition we act [14:24] enact is a hold and this is this generally occurs when we have say something like a medical [14:31] situation so in a cold what we are asking our students to do is to remain in their room or classroom area could be [14:38] a gymnasium it could be the media center and they're essentially clearing all hallways business will continue as usual [14:46] so the learning will still continue with the exception really of that impacted area and the reason that we're going [14:52] into a hold is for a couple things if you think of a medical situation first and foremost we want to make sure that [14:58] the impacted individual has some privacy we want to make sure that health services staff or emergency responders [15:04] are able to get there and provide the support that is needed and so when we enact a hold like I said it's generally [15:10] a medical scenario and we're asking everybody just to stay in their space until that area that impacted area can [15:17] be cleared the second safe condition we have is called secure and this is a new [15:23] one for us um in terms of language it's not new in the practices but the language is new [15:29] and this is when we want everybody to get inside we're going to lock the outside doors to our school which are [15:35] all generally locked except for that main door and business continues as usual we use this generally when there's [15:41] a threat outside of our building so for example there is a police situation in the neighborhood we just want to get [15:48] everybody inside off the playgrounds out of any parking lots and they're inside [15:53] until that threat can be cleared so that's what we're going to use iic here [15:58] the one you're probably most familiar with of course is a lockdown in a lockdown situation the [16:05] doors are locked to our individual classrooms the lights are turned off and the students and staff are positioning [16:12] themselves out of sight of an intruder we know that this is often used for an active shoter scenario but I want [16:19] to reiterate it doesn't only have to be used in this instance so anytime that there is an intruder or a threat of some [16:26] sort of violence inside of the building we may into a lockdown [16:31] scenario the next one is evacuate we're all pretty familiar with this one generally known as a fire drill but in [16:38] this um instance what we're trying to do in this place is we're trying to clear the building and we're asking all of our [16:44] staff and students to evacuate to a specific location like I said it's generally used for a fire but the reason [16:50] we call it evacuate is because we might evacuate for other reasons we might evacuate if there's a gas leak in the building and so we want to have those [16:57] same we want to make sure all of our students and staff understand those protocols and processes um in an [17:04] evacuation and our final one is shelter we use shelter when there is a severe [17:10] weather incident most often in Minnesota that is for a tornado and in this case we're going to have students and staff [17:16] take shelter in designated locations so anytime there's a crisis situation or an incident our building [17:24] principles or generally the incident commanders in our situations are going to enact one of these protocols and we [17:30] are training our staff and students to know and follow these procedures when these things are called so that's the [17:37] first part of I love you guys training um that we received around the standard response protocol like I said a lot of [17:42] the stuff we were already doing just now the language is slightly different and we are really working on as a district [17:49] is making sure that our language is consistent and they we're using with frequency so that everyone in our [17:54] building be it a substitute teacher a volunteer a class teacher they all know [17:59] and a student they know what to do in these [18:04] instances the next part of what the I love you guys Foundation brought to us or helped us with Provide support in is [18:11] the standard reunification method and a reunification occurs when there is a [18:16] crisis incident in the school building and school can no longer continue so [18:21] that could be a power outage that could be um a a criminal event that could be [18:28] there was tornado damage to the building and now we all have to get out um and what we're going to do in that instance [18:33] is we're going to reunify our students with their families parents or [18:38] Guardians there are two types of reunifications there's the on-site and there's the [18:44] offsite an on-site reunification would occur like I said for something like a power outage power's out we can't have a [18:51] school anymore learning can't continue so we need to get kids home safely in an accountable fashion we're going to enact [18:58] the standard reunification method on site so at the specific [19:03] building the second type is the off-site reunification and that is when there's either a damage to the building or there [19:10] is maybe a criminal incident um there are injuries and we need to remove students from the building and transport [19:17] them to another location and then reunify them with their families in both of those instances we're going to enact [19:24] our reunification process and I do think it's important here one while we hope that we don't have to use this often or [19:31] really ever um I want to go through the basic process because I think it's really important to understand that [19:36] reification takes time and it's hard in a crisis situation time is not what we [19:42] all want to do we we don't all wait for something right um but a reification to get it all done properly and make sure [19:49] that we are accountable for the students because that is the job of the district we're going to go through this [19:55] process so the basic process is first of all we have to stand up the location and what that means is we have to get it [20:01] ready that could be the location that's onsite or that could be a location that's offsite we're going to do a [20:07] couple things there and this is where a district Emergency Response Team really comes into play the first thing we're [20:13] going to do is establish a student assembly area so where are we going to have all of those students go when they [20:18] get to that location or if it's on site maybe they're just going to stay in their [20:23] classrooms the next thing we're going to do is create a um accountability or attendance area somewhere where we can [20:30] make sure that we are keeping track of every student that comes in and out of that [20:36] location once we've done that once we've stood up the location then we are going to send a notification to [20:43] families and the reason we do this is for a couple things first of all we want to make sure that the reunification site [20:49] is ready and prepared to receive families we also want to make sure that we can give appropriate directions as to [20:56] what that process is going to look like so we've stood up the site we've notified families and then families are [21:02] going to start arriving obviously to pick up their children when they get there what they should see are a set of greeters and the [21:09] greeters are going to distribute a reunification card the card is a half sheet of paper and um with uh [21:17] information that the family is going to fill out that greeter will also kind of review the process here's where you're [21:22] going to go here's who you're going to speak to um and help families to understand what they need to do through this re [21:29] ification the parent or the guardian they're going to complete the card and they're going to go to a check-in [21:34] location and the purpose of that check-in location is for the school district to make sure that they have accountability again like I said for the [21:41] students that are coming in and out of that area parent or Guardian will show their ID and then that card is split in half [21:49] and I have a member on my team who has worked very tiously to print off thousands of these perforated pieces of [21:55] paper so that they are ready to go so that we have them on hand and she's here that's why I'm saying it right now um [22:00] thank you Kelly uh the card is split in half and again this is an accountability [22:05] check the parent or Guardian is going to hang on to the bottom part of that card and the top part of that card is going [22:11] to go to the accountability or attendance area again it's another way for us to double check make sure that we [22:17] are paying attention to who's coming in and out of our area the parent our Guardian will bring that card to a [22:23] reunify and the reunify will recover the student and deliver them to the parent kind Guardian it sounds like a big [22:30] process and it is and the most important thing about this the thing that is non-negotiable for us is accountability [22:36] so that's why we go through these steps that's why that we set up this process before families get there so that we are [22:42] accountable for all of our students and our staff in this [22:49] space another part of our layer to security approach which probably most of you are familiar with at this point is [22:54] our Raptor visitor management at the beginning of this year year the start of the school year we rolled out Raptor in [23:01] all of our district buildings what Raptor does is it provides us a layer security of who is [23:07] coming into our buildings so who has access to our buildings and it provides [23:12] us a quick reference of who's in our building during an incident or crisis so say for example we've got two wonderful [23:20] Volunteers in our media center checking out books and then we have an evacuation drill we can look in Raptor know those [23:26] individuals are in building and we can make sure that we account for them and provide them the support to get out of [23:32] their buildings in the appropriate fashion what Raptor really does for us [23:37] besides those things is it enables us to scan against the national sex offender registry as well as any custom flages [23:44] and alerts that we have in Infinite Campus our student information system and those flages could be things like [23:50] custodial agreements or no contact orders again making sure that we're paying attention to who's coming into [23:56] our buildings and who has access access to our children when a visitor comes into our [24:01] building they will show an ID that gets scanned into the system and the nice thing about raptor is that multiple [24:07] forms of ID are accepted it could be a password it could be a state issued ID [24:12] um anything with a picture and a birthday really works in this case assuming that everything's clear [24:19] and good to go a badge is printed off for visitors and that badge has the a v visitors picture their first and last [24:26] name the date and time time and the location that they are um going within the building what is really great about [24:33] this and what we're going to work with our students and um continue to work with their staff on is they when they see adults in the building they should [24:39] see one of two things either a wapor visitor badge or a staff um issued uh [24:44] employee badge now if necessary if there's an alert um and there's a flag on that [24:50] person um alerts are automatically sent via email and text to the appropriate [24:55] business um building personnel so that then they can respond to those so again [25:01] another layer to our entire security [25:06] approach now the things I started talking about standard response protocol standard reunification method most of [25:13] those things are during school hours what we know edine is a busy Community we have a lot of things that happen we [25:19] have extracurricular activities we have out of school programming and Safety and Security is just as important during [25:25] those times as it is during the school day so one of the things that we did was we [25:31] asked um our athletic director Choy Stein about what of the protocols and procedures we put in a place for [25:37] extracurricular activities and he actually put this really nice Grid in here what's great to know is that our [25:42] coaches our advisers our out of schooltime event workers they all follow [25:47] the same standard response protocol that we follow during the school day I'm not going to read all these to you because [25:54] the slide presentation will be available after but I just want to highlight for example if that if um there's a hold [26:01] during an extracurricular event the culture advisor the site supervisor [26:07] knows that they need to get the trainer if that's um applicable no locations of [26:12] the aeds you can see that is linked here which I'm not going to open our emergency action plans so what are the [26:19] things that should happen in this hold they know that they need to call 911 [26:24] they need to clear the area and they're going to designate someone to meet a first responder what I think is [26:29] fantastic to see is this stuff is already in place so as we hire new coaches as we have new site supervisors [26:36] we can share this information with them help get them trained and make sure they know what to do during our extracar [26:44] events we also have our out of school programming which we have an abundance of and that's the programming that we [26:51] have that runs before the school day or after the regular school day till about 6: p.m. those programs generally occur in [26:59] our Early Learning Center and our elementary sites we have a couple things like Hornet Central in our middle [27:05] school and they follow a standard process and procedure as well at our [27:10] Early Learning Center uh we use Raptor verification for any adult that is coming into the building even though [27:17] they have adults coming in the building all at all times of the day they are still using the Raptor visor management [27:23] system at our elementary sites during enrichmond and Kids Club there are designated staff members that are there [27:30] at the entrances when um families come to pick up their children the adults are there to greet them and to release [27:36] students and make sure they're going to be appropriate um partners and what I think is really [27:42] amazing and I'm really appreciative of Dr anarie Leland and the community aded staff there she is back there um [27:47] training on the standard response protocol is provided to all of our Community Education staff as [27:55] well and Fin finally um some of the just additional things we are doing so I [28:01] already mentioned this before and I I don't know how many times I can say it our partnership with the city of Adina [28:07] with our emergency response personnel and our community is super important um [28:12] the nice thing about the police chief and the fire chief we have had tabletop exercises with them we have had meetings [28:19] in the firehouse they're always willing to come and support us in our Safety and Security [28:25] efforts um you have probably heard of a lot in the news about school resource officers adanta Public Schools have [28:31] school resource officers and will continue to have school resource officers in our buildings we have a [28:37] fantastic partnership with them the relationships our school resource off officers have built with our students is [28:45] phenomenal you know as I already said all of our buildings are locked throughout the school day with the [28:50] exception of that Main and front door we have badge access and security access at [28:56] all of our doors we use Raptor visitor management as I already mentioned um so that's one thing I think [29:02] the perimeter of our school building is super important and so we are constantly aware of and paying attention to what is [29:08] happening around all of the doors um and the access that people have into our [29:14] buildings something that I have really enjoyed doing this year that I think has been super beneficial to our team are [29:21] tabletop exercises and tabletop exercises are those low stakes exercises [29:26] that we do we put us scenario on the table not literally but we put something out there and then we practice as a team [29:33] how we would respond in in an incident that is made up right and we use the [29:39] protocols and procedures that we know we ask ourselves questions we reflect on we [29:44] think about our vulnerabilities and risks and we do all of that before an actual incident occurs as I mentioned we [29:49] have done one tabletop exercise with our emergency response Personnel we've done tabletop exercises with our district [29:56] leadership team and I think that's something that we'll continue to do because like I said it allows us to figure out those [30:02] vulnerabilities those gaps that we might have in our systems as well as the things that are going well before an [30:07] actual event occurs um we do like all public schools hold safety drills we do 11 safety [30:14] drills five lock down type drills five evacuate drills and one uh shelter so a [30:22] severe weather drill we also do one enhanced drill and by enhanced drill that doesn't mean that we're doing [30:28] anything crazy and we're not trying to create trauma but we might do a drill during passing time at the high school [30:33] if you've ever been in the high school during passing time there's a lot happening um we might do a drill when [30:39] there's students out on the playground trying to figure out those different scenarios that we can practice and make sure everybody knows how to respond [30:46] regardless of the eventure situation uh all of our any incident [30:52] that we might have any drill that we do we debrief on um the most recent [30:58] incident that we just had in our community I have now met with every building principal to debrief and they [31:04] have done these things with staff and I've been honestly so astounded by our building principles maybe give them a [31:09] round of applause real [31:14] [Music] quick our building principles this year have done such a phenomenal job of [31:20] taking security and safety practices to the next level there's been a lot of reflection a lot of conversation and a [31:27] lot of changes just to our practices to continue like I said it's ongoing so we need to continue to get better and [31:32] that's what our building principles are doing and finally when you came in um You probably noticed a table with our um [31:39] with some community members with B smart um B smart is I'm I'm not going to get [31:45] it all right so please stop at their table and talk with them well B smart is really a program around secure gun [31:51] safety and storage in vehicles or in homes um modeling gun safety um being [31:57] able to be in conversation about gun safety and we are grateful to have just another partnership within our ad Public [32:03] Schools community so for me that is a lot of information and I'm going to turn it [32:09] over to Dr [32:17] sty thank you Natasha you can see why we are so impressed in why she oversees our Safety [32:24] and Security another round of applause [32:32] so that is a lot of information again these are processes that we've been [32:37] putting in place since last uh last spring that we knew we [32:43] needed to have in place to make certain that we were Shoring up our security efforts so we want to give you a chance [32:51] to just turn and talk with a neighbor about everything that you have heard [32:57] what about this information makes sense to you what is still a little confusing [33:03] to you going to give you a couple of minutes to turn and talk with your [33:09] neighbor if you're not near a neighbor you can find one that's close by we'll [33:14] come back together and then I'm going to give you an opportunity to write [33:20] questions down if you haven't already written your questions down so first [33:27] take a chance to turn and talk to your neighbor and then next any questions you [33:33] have you're going to write on your cards we'll come back together in a few [33:55] minutes [34:05] oh [34:25] yeah [34:55] can [35:25] do [35:55] do [36:25] oh [36:44] all right I'm going to invite you to come [36:49] back in five [36:55] 4 three three [37:01] 2 and one that's pretty impressive it doesn't [37:07] completely always happen that way when we're working with our kid this you did come back thank you so much so [37:15] now we want to invite you to write down your questions if you haven't already on [37:21] the cards we are going to try to get to as many questions as [37:28] possible and we want to make certain that you're able to get your question [37:33] answered in a personal way so if you feel comfortable if you could either [37:39] write down your name and your phone number or write down your name and your [37:44] email address if we aren't able to get to your [37:49] question then we will be able to contact you [37:55] directly so if if you feel comfortable doing that please write that down and [38:02] now I'm going to invite up our panelists to um come up for a [38:11] conversation about our partnership and as they're coming up I [38:17] will say it's important for you to know that we have security measures that [38:25] are in place that we cannot share it would Place us in a position of [38:31] being incredibly vulnerable as much as we would like the community our residents our uh [38:38] families to know our students to know everything we know that that could put [38:44] us in a position where it would prevent us from keeping our students our staff [38:51] our families any volunteers that are in our schools safe so you may have [38:58] wondered well what about video cameras or you know what about some of those pieces those are items that we do update [39:06] the school board about in a closed session because legally we're able to do [39:12] that in a close session we do not share that detailed information out in the [39:18] public again to make certain that we're keeping everyone safe and we're not [39:25] putting ourselves in a vulnerable position so welcome everyone it's great [39:32] to have you here um I want to Echo Natasha's comments [39:39] that I am incredibly grateful as superintendent for the partnership that [39:45] we have with the city of Edina that we have with Edina Police [39:50] Department have f [39:58] you're under arrest [40:04] um I am so proud as I get together with [40:09] other superintendents and we come together a few times a month to talk about pressing issues and I have been so [40:16] proud and honored to be able to say that our sro's have been in our buildings and [40:22] with us since the start of the school year when I had a conversation with uh [40:29] Scott and with Chief Milbourne there was never a question whether or not our SRO [40:37] would be in our buildings to help protect our kids to help make sure that we had safe spaces they were willing to [40:44] be partners from the very onset and I am grateful for that Natasha had mentioned that we [40:51] actually come together a few times a year and we do tabletops together I know [40:59] that mayor is really involved in that and I thought we could start mayor by by [41:05] you just sharing your work as an advocate for our city as an advocate for [41:14] our schools um in making certain that we have resources and we're working to make [41:21] sure that we're a safe Community thank you thank you for that [41:27] this functions as well as it does because of the Rel School District [41:45] City so I'll start over again this city functions as well as it does because of the relationship between the school [41:50] district in the city and you add in the business community and it's that three-legged stool that makes you die [41:56] function so well uh I thought one of the things that would be important for all of you to know that uh and I I think many of you [42:03] knew that early on when we had remember when we had that attempted carjacking back in the the late fall of [42:10] 2020 uh the residents in our town uh called a Citizens meeting we had one [42:15] over at the D Country Club and there were over 300 people that showed up within just a few weeks of when that [42:21] incident occurred and uh there were quite a few people from minol was there including my [42:27] friend Julie Wickland who's up in the audience who open enrolls her kids in the ad school system who was a victim of [42:33] a home invasion in South Minneapolis many Minneapolis people there are looking for a place that have their [42:39] voices heard and their concerns about Public Safety because we all knew that Minneapolis was down 250 police officers [42:46] and so with with them down the way they were we you know we had had that one uh [42:51] attempted carjacking at the L Barley's parking lot but in the fifth Precinct they had had had 600 in a year actual [42:58] card de so crime was starting to seep into the into the immediate suburbs like [43:04] us who are next to our neighbors to Minneapolis and then even further out into places like minaka you've seen [43:09] lately what's been happening with respect to people showing up City Hall in minaka and support of a family that [43:15] was carjacked you know really basically two rings out so s that community [43:21] meeting in January of 2021 we had a meeting of Public Safety people and [43:26] Mayors probably had over 100 people in uh Eden Prairie City Hall and out of [43:32] that evolved uh and and the state was there the feds weren't there but the state county cities were there uh all of [43:39] that involved something called Mike Freeman who was our County Attorney at the time called uh Minnesota heels MN [43:45] heels 2.0 back in the late '90s you remember uh Minneapolis was called Murder a some of you that have been [43:51] around here long enough they formed a group of residents and organiz ations in [43:56] Minneapolis that worked on that homicide ring got out and so they thought this would be a good thing to work on because [44:03] we had all this activity around carjackings attempted carjackings attempted auto theft auto theft which is [44:09] still up uh in numbers mostly involving juvenal so what are we going to do with [44:15] these these these kids that were all engaged in this activity uh and then uh [44:21] so I've been regularly attending on behalf of all the Mayors R Mayors MN Hills meetings which started out real [44:27] strong with Freeman meeting and then when the job switched over to Mary Mor she didn't want [44:33] anything to do with it uh because she had enough on her plate the way it was uh and so uh Mike Freeman on his way out [44:41] asked me as a Suburban mayor and Cedric Alexander who was then the director of [44:46] Public Safety for the City of Minneapolis was now gone to take over heels so heels has evolved into what I [44:53] would say is a more of an educational sort of effort uh on a quarterly basis and I've really got a lot of help from [45:00] Julie uh and from Mark osher who lives in our community who's a professor law professor in St Thomas who's now on [45:06] leave for a year to go to the county to help with adult criminal prosecution former Federal prosecut in in Detroit [45:14] and then along with Andy ler who is our us attorney who was a former Edina resident many of you may have remembered [45:20] Andy living here with his wife Ellen uh and uh the notion is to take the worst [45:26] of the worst off the street so I think through the efforts of the federal prosecutor in particular car jackings [45:32] are way down uh and they've been taking uh real bad guys off the street I think [45:37] he's got about 200 people they've taken off the street so far memory serves me right so you're you're going to see some [45:44] reduction in crime anyway the work of heels continues but there are also Suburban Mayors in the western suburbs [45:50] in particular uh continuing to work around on this juvenile crime issue and [45:56] we're trying to get the mayor golden valy trying to get a meeting set up with Mary morer so we can deal with um but we [46:04] can talk through some of her policies compared to our our view of the world which may be a little bit different than [46:10] hers and um so that's that's kind of what's been happening from uh the standpoint of your mayor and some of the [46:17] things we doing from a political standpoint uh and uh through the western suburbs to try to reduce uh in [46:24] particular juvenal crime and we will continue that work uh but in [46:29] the meantime our Police Department you couldn't hear was doing a really Stellar job I think of uh working on strategies [46:35] and tactics that help us uh reduce crime and even as Minneapolis tries to rebuild [46:41] as police forces it might take a while but um that's what we're working on maybe there was more than people wanted [46:46] to know but I thought you should know uh what the city was working on and what we're doing from [46:53] a government standpoint and a coordination with other communities standpoint on some of this in particular [47:00] juvenile crime no mayor I think that that is very important because there are so many [47:05] things that are going on behind the scenes that you know they're they're not [47:10] right out in the front and all those PE pieces are so important I attended a meeting with uh the mayor with [47:17] commissioner lras and our board chair really speaking to how do we help youth [47:24] to find their space so that they aren't engaged in any criminal Behavior so I [47:30] really appreciate that partnership and then Scott do you mayor started out by saying this is a partnership and uh if [47:37] you could talk more about just the partnership that we've continued to develop around safety in the city and [47:44] how that supports our school yes my name is Scott Neil I'm the city manager and I have the equivalent position that Dr [47:51] Stanley has except in the city government and it's clear to me in terms of what my priorities have been from our [47:58] elected officials out in the city council that schools and school operations and quality public schools [48:05] are are just as important to us they really are the secret sauce that keeps the town that it is and we [48:12] translate that that kind of priority back through our operating departments uh two of which are are here tonight our [48:20] police and fire but we really have a lot of other touch points uh with with City departments part and W is maybe our [48:26] biggest in terms of how do we share facilities how do we work together to make sure we have uh all the facilities [48:33] we need and policies that we need for uh the school district and for the people that live here too uh my job is to is to [48:40] get an understanding of the operational needs of the of police and fire and Parks wreck and all the different uh [48:46] departments within city government and make sure council is aware of that and to take their policies to push them back [48:52] the other way so again that's what we think is important and that's how how that's how we do it at the [48:58] St the policy piece is so incredibly important and to know that we have a [49:03] partner at the city table um to really look into policy that can support the [49:09] policies that we have at the school level is so appreciative I have to see who's next uh Chief mbberg and chief [49:18] Slama since we we all started at the same time we started in the summer of [49:24] 2021 together and from the time I started here I knew that I had true [49:30] Partners in the work that we are doing um I knew whether it was the attempted [49:35] carjacking just this last spring or whether it was the two most recent [49:41] incidents that I could call them and I could get the support and they would pull together [49:47] the resources that they could to make certain that we're able to keep all of our students safe and so um Chiefs um do [49:55] you want want to talk about our partnership and and just the things that we've been doing to once again keep the [50:00] city and the school safe sure thank you uh good evening everyone Todd mour you're your police chief here in the [50:07] Cami din I came here about just over two years ago and Andrew came maybe a couple months prior to that and just as an [50:14] example kind of just a tie into things that we're discussing here tonight when we think about school safety and un fortunately active Shooters things that [50:20] we're seen across the nation Ander and I had a quick conversation early on and asked ourselves are we ready are we [50:25] ready for a big event is the school safe are we ready to respond to a major event that that should unfortunately happen [50:31] here and collectively we said we are ready but I think we require and need a little bit more enhanced training and [50:36] think about how we collaborate and work with the school district in moving this forward and so we got to work right away with our Collective staff we work with [50:43] our school staff here and as everyone's already indicated we have an excellent partnership and relationship built up [50:49] already and we worked through that we've been training on that and we've been doing that work over the last couple years we ofer refer to phases in our [50:56] approach and we work through and I'll just summarize this real quickly to say that we have uh gone through two different phases the first phase is to [51:03] get our Collective Public Safety staff involved and to retrain and make sure one's on the St same standard page and [51:09] then our phase two is to integrate in with our school staff and our management team to think about communication reunification all the things that [51:15] already been described here as well so when you think about is the response good here Ina are we going to be able to [51:21] handle anything the answer is absolutely unequivocally yes we are absolutely prepared to handle anything that comes [51:26] our way here from a l c standpoint so I need everyone to have that confidence walking out here tonight um school [51:32] resource officers just a tie into that a little bit too yes absolutely we we we knew right away that we wanted to keep [51:37] our SOS in place a lot of it has to do with our Sr we have really good sros here we always said really good sros but [51:42] our current sros when we talk to them and we gaau them about the new law the way things have changed are they okay being here and they unequally said yes [51:49] we're fine with it we know how to handle it we're going to make some adjustments on how we handle things and that's totally fine and so they bought in right [51:55] away and they're super supportive of where we're at today too so that's a big key piece component to this and then [52:00] lastly I'll share an example of some really good work here that's happened uh recently as well think back to the football game homecoming last year we [52:07] had some skirmishes and fights unfortunately so we came together we talked about how to prepare for the next event to make sure that we're plan [52:13] planning well that we have a good safety plan in place and this year we did that we worked with the school district we had our police officers in the first [52:20] staff come together and talk about how can we improve security enhancements and procedures how can we take it differently you know uh we brought in [52:26] Elders from the small community because there some really good relationships with uh our mosque and Bloomington for [52:31] example and just brought in some different creative opportunities here to make sure that our kids are busy and that we're not going to that's not going [52:37] to lead to any kind of violence here and so as you all know that we had really successful homecoming football game this [52:42] year as well so we those are a couple examples I just wanted to share to show that we work behind the scenes very um [52:48] very well together we plan and we prepare and we get ready for events uh that are coming our way but again we [52:53] have a really good relationship with our School District here and I'm very proud of work here as well so all turn over to Chief [53:01] Lama good evening everyone I'm Andrew slammo fire chief for City V and uh Todd [53:07] mentioned it and Dr Stanley mentioned it but we the three of us started at the same time we kind of got here two years [53:13] ago a little bit over two years ago um and excited to serve in uh in our [53:18] specific positions but even more excited to get to meet uh being new together and [53:23] I think it's allowed the three of us to walk through this partnership um with open ey open eyes and open arms and that [53:30] gave us the ability to connect um look at where our Cap's needs were and come [53:35] together to to work together on that so one of the unique things with Edina fire department and is we're the only [53:42] fire-based ambulance service so your firefighters are trained as paramedics as well every single firefighter is a [53:49] paramedic and they uh bring both levels of training to every single emergency that they respond to um with that unique [53:56] approach um that gives us the ability to really cover every aspect of the response when when when we are called [54:03] upon with a 911 response um in addition to that we bring an instant command [54:09] focus when we when we break down emergency and make sure that communication is clear um and that's [54:14] something I think the three of us police fire and the school district have partnered with to bring that approach [54:20] and you see that with the I love you guys Foundation uh that program allows for for clean clear communication across [54:27] all the schools um the school really makes a decision with the information that they have available allows uh [54:34] police and fire and and the ambulance to respond and assist with more information [54:39] as we as we gather more information um but the tabletops that were referred to [54:45] the drills we've had police and fire Representatives as a part of each one of those um we had a couple round of [54:51] applauses for Natasha it's not enough she is doing a lot for the school district [55:02] and so with that uh we we feel really strongly about these Partnerships and I [55:07] think uh as we look through uh different incidents throughout the country uh we [55:12] see that that that's what makes an incident work well um responding to that [55:17] working with the community having these Partnerships and building trust before uh so that you're prepared to respond to [55:22] anything that comes our way and so with that turn it back to Dr St thanks so much [55:30] again just knowing that Tasha is able to reach out to Chief Milburn to Chief [55:35] Salama at any given time and she's um looking through our plan is she's [55:41] developing our plan and she's questioning looking for any holes that are in our plan that is so important because they are the experts in this [55:48] work and they are readily available at any time to speak with her so so far [55:54] we've we talked about what happens in the process of preparing [56:01] proactively um to prevent and then what happens if there is an incident so we've [56:06] talked about during the incident we' talked a little bit about post incident [56:12] where we are reunifying uh if we have to our students with [56:17] families jod remsing is our director of student support services and we know [56:23] that when a critical incident happens like the the two that we had most recently that we have to take care of [56:29] our students and our staff after that so there is postwork [56:35] that is done and I'm going to invite jod to talk a little bit about that okay [56:41] thank you Dr Stanley um my name is Jody remsing and I'm the director of student support services and as Dr Stanley um [56:48] stated my role is to oversee the psychological response to school crisis and emergency um this year we are [56:55] participating in something called prepared training um for our administrators and mental health [57:00] professionals prepared training is a series of two workshops that was developed by the National Association of [57:06] school psychologists they've been providing evidence-based resources and consultation to school crisis for school [57:14] Crisis Prevention for the past 10 years and so the way that Natasha and I really partner is Natasha's really overseeing [57:20] that physical safety with I love you guys training prepared training is really focusing on that psychological [57:26] response and so the way the training is set up is there's one workshop for all um administrators in the district um [57:33] districtwide administrators as well as principles the second Workshop is set up for our mental health um providers [57:40] within the district and so that means that all of our schools have a school psychologist um School social worker and [57:46] at the secondary level we also have school counselors and so they all come together really looking at what we can [57:52] do to help students and some of the takeaways that that come from prepared training is really indepth training [57:58] about these psychological effects um what they're able to do is recognize the difference between common crisis [58:04] reactions and true mental illness um recognizing risk factors and to predict [58:10] psychological trauma identifying the warning signs and that might indicate um psychological [58:17] trauma and then placing Mental Health crisis interventions together in a multi-tiered Continuum which ranges from [58:24] the least um the least restrictive um interventions to the to the most restrictive and then we also match the [58:31] degree of psychological trauma risk to the appropriate School intervention so that we can make sure that our students [58:38] are getting the help they need there's resources that come out through prepared training things like sharing the right [58:43] amount of information with children throughout um whether we're having secure situation or they're being held [58:50] in their classroom just so students have that information knowing things like this is a drill we don't have to be [58:56] scared right now checking in with those students I mean really keeping them up to date with what's happening so that [59:01] when we're holding these we're making sure that we're not harming our students and we're really tuned in to how the [59:07] student is responded thank you Jody when we send [59:15] out messages after a critical incident and we send out the resources um to [59:20] families to give you some resources to speak with your children to help them as [59:27] they are processing an incident and has happened that information is being [59:33] captured by jod and we are so grateful uh for her and the work that she does with her social workers and with the [59:39] school psychologist to make certain um that our students have that opportunity [59:44] to recover um kids are exposed to things that I know personally uh I was never [59:50] exposed to in school and uh that after care is incredibly important and so uh [59:56] really grateful for jod so Natasha shared lots of information with you but [1:00:02] Natasha I wondered if you could talk about the process that you go through to [1:00:08] uh be able to pull together the tabletops that we're doing what resources are you using how are you [1:00:14] partnering with uh the city yeah for sure um I think one of the things that we know about school safety [1:00:21] is there's just a wealth of information out there right now and so certainly um part of the work is to partner with I [1:00:28] actually asked uh Chief SL I don't know a few months ago for some training resources and he provided them to me [1:00:34] right away and so creating those Partnerships obviously with our city and emergency personnel and then using the [1:00:40] resources from something like the I love you guys Foundation allows us to create those tabletop exercises again so like I [1:00:47] said before we can practice in a low stakes environment and look at those vulnerabilities and risks and really [1:00:52] assess what we're doing in our next steps thank you so much and then Dean Edwards [1:00:59] so when you're getting those communication whether it's the phone calls whether it's the communication [1:01:06] coming out that is dney is our chief officer for marketing and [1:01:11] communication and so Deanie do you want to talk about you know the things that we can publicly sure um for and [1:01:18] especially how we're working with the city in collaboration to get those Communications help sure hello everyone [1:01:26] again my name is dney Edwards I'm the director of marketing and Communications and my team is [1:01:32] responsible for the notices that you are receiving when there's generally when there's a significant event and [1:01:38] communication is going across the district in that case I work very [1:01:43] closely or a member of my team works very closely with the dirt team specifically with Dr Stanley and most [1:01:51] definitely with our Police Department our approach to Communication in an event is to get out [1:01:59] as much information as we can that's as quickly as we can and of course that's [1:02:06] completely accurate I really do hope everyone understands that that is our [1:02:11] approach our approach is to be transparent and our approach is to be [1:02:17] quick I imagine it doesn't always feel that way and we're learning from each [1:02:22] incident ways that we can do those things faster and better we uh work very [1:02:29] closely with the police department we may find out from the police department about an event when they're brought in we're [1:02:37] touching base with them to understand as much as we can at the beginning of an [1:02:42] event we may not know all the details and all we might be able to share at that point is that we know that [1:02:47] something is happening and that one of our standard response protocols has been [1:02:53] enacted we want you to at least know that much as we're waiting to receive [1:02:58] more information as well as we have information as we can collect more [1:03:03] information we will share it we're starting to share more information more [1:03:08] broadly we recognize that an event might take place at one site but many families [1:03:15] have children at multiple sites we're all part of a community so we all care [1:03:20] about people at multiple sites so we are starting to send send out an initial [1:03:26] communication districtwide then we really start to focus on those sites [1:03:31] that have been impacted because we really want to serve those families and those staff members first and we really [1:03:38] want to serve them serve them well there are instances where we share [1:03:44] as much as we possibly can that's legal and that's not going to impede an [1:03:51] investigation we want every member of our community need to be safe and we [1:03:56] want every wrongdoer to be apprehended so there are times when [1:04:02] there are details that I would imagine seem obvious to share but we rely on the experts in the police department to tell [1:04:09] us things that we might share that might hinder their investigation we absolutely don't want to do that so again our [1:04:16] approach is to be as transparent as we can to be as quick as we can and getting [1:04:22] word out to our families and staff and to be as accurate as [1:04:29] possible thank you for that Deanie Dey started with us just over a [1:04:34] year ago and her work to build Partnerships and relationships with the [1:04:39] communications team that is part of the Police Department fire department um has [1:04:45] just been so appreciated you can imagine um when when I receive a call at 10:30 at night from [1:04:53] Chief I did a couple of weeks ago the first person that I'm calling is Staffing and that's because I know that [1:04:59] we have to start to prepare to send out some communication again we have to wait [1:05:05] till we have the solid communication we do not want to get out in front of the police department and Dy Works directly [1:05:12] with the police department um as they're developing the [1:05:17] communications so before we move into answering uh the attendees questions I'm [1:05:26] wondering if there's anything else that has come to mind for anyone that they would like to [1:05:35] share Dr Samy I can share um one of the things that that I did mention is we going through it I think uh I'd [1:05:42] recommend all of you to look up the I love you guys Foundation I think it's a it's a great Foundation that was started [1:05:48] for the right purpose uh where uh a critical incident a crisis took place [1:05:53] and the family that that Nasha mentioned realized that there was not resources for schools and so that group went and [1:06:01] researched did found best practices and brought that back to schools free of charge they work with police Fire EMS [1:06:10] individuals to provide best practices to schools uh that standard response protocol came out of that and it [1:06:16] continues to be developed and and uh and re-energized the re the reunification [1:06:21] process is a challenging process you can imagine uh getting every child back to [1:06:26] their family safe is is the most important piece and accountability is um [1:06:32] is very important in that and so that standard reeducation method is the best practice that can be used and and I [1:06:38] appreciate the the district having that training and that capability um because [1:06:44] the police and the fire department work together to provide the logistics and security um and rescue in that situation [1:06:51] but the the school really owns those kids and and owns the responsibility of getting them home safe so uh I just want [1:06:57] to have everyone go look into that program and how it started it's Tre touching [1:07:03] story Dr Stanley I can add some more details about how I work with um police [1:07:09] and fire so when there is an incident I will likely find out first from Dr [1:07:15] Stanley who's found out from a principal or from E police and then I'm involved [1:07:22] in all of the follow-up conversations generally that are going to happen with the police department so that I can get [1:07:29] information as it's becoming available and immediately go into preparation mode [1:07:35] for communications to all of you through the partnership we've been communicating [1:07:43] more often I think as events are unfolding specifically in order to [1:07:50] design the messaging that's going to go from police and going going from the school so that you are going to get the [1:07:58] same information from both the school as well as from the police department and [1:08:05] that that information is going to come out together if not one step after the [1:08:11] police who are leading the investigation so we are typically virtually in the [1:08:17] room together or in the room together by way of Virtual Technology putting the facts together [1:08:24] being crystal clear on all the information that we're legally able to share and really sharing everything that [1:08:32] we're legally able to share with you again just being mindful of not impeding [1:08:38] a police investigation and we're also doing more follow-up communication so [1:08:43] once police have apprehended a wrongdoer we're coming back to the community to [1:08:49] let you know that as well and then sharing as many facts as we we can that [1:08:55] really pertain directly to the community so we are really we're working hand in [1:09:01] hand it's virtual but we're essentially side by side I work closely with my [1:09:06] communications counterpart at the police department as well as uh Lieutenant Vinnie who is the public information [1:09:13] officer for police I just want to give out a couple of compliments I was thinking about it [1:09:20] as folks were talking a couple weeks ago Dr Stanley and I were in the same car in the homecoming parade and we [1:09:26] went down that uh Parade route down Wooddale and E West on 58 there were so [1:09:33] many adults uh in the crowd that were shouting out to Dr Stanley thanks for what you're doing and thanks to the team [1:09:40] I think is what they were saying really thanks to the school district and it all of course begins with leadership at the [1:09:46] uh School Board level so all of these things that you've heard about tonight [1:09:51] have to be blessed by your school board these thoughtful people that serve our community that are part of our community [1:09:56] on the Schoolboard deserve some real credit for everything that's taking place here too so let's not forget about [1:10:02] those uh those local elected officials that serve you so well [1:10:07] um then the other thing I wanted to comment on related to those two incidents that we've experienced with [1:10:13] their are School related I want to give a shout out to our own Police Department that within 24 hours with people working [1:10:20] all night long uh to solve these uh situation T CL with respect to the [1:10:26] 17-year-old that Brandy done in front of the high school so everybody can see where he was and decided to put it on [1:10:33] Instagram and then those two little girls from Bloomington 10 and 11 or whatever they were years of age who [1:10:39] decided to make a threat against nor Hill the French imersion program both [1:10:45] those things were quickly resolved and solved by our Police Department in conjunction working with the school [1:10:51] district so again a great example of all that partnership Works between the city and the [1:10:57] [Applause] [1:11:02] [Music] school well I get the credit but it's [1:11:08] really the officers that do the heavy LIF and I just inad take take the Gratitude so thank you for that but this [1:11:13] is probably a good segue to talk a little bit about give you some background about what it looks like from a criminal investigation standpoint [1:11:18] behind the scenes and so we know when we have threats that come in are reported to us [1:11:24] um real or fake or just however that's perceived our officers go into action [1:11:30] and we know we're on the timer I'm on a timer and I've dealt with this a number of timesing of course my career particularly with school districts and [1:11:35] students and parents are obviously rightfully so very concerned that you know we're at 247 operations so we'll go [1:11:41] on a timer and we will work these things overnight and we will get detectives in and we will follow the leads to wherever [1:11:46] that might take us and that gets into search marks that gets into cell phone data that gets into putting officers in [1:11:52] positions if we have identified and so those are the things that happen overnight to prepare ourselves for the next day to get into the communication [1:11:58] pieces as well and that gets us into these timely communication meetings where we'll have the discussions and we release what we can you're dealing with [1:12:05] an active criminal investigation you're compelled or you're locked in through data practices on what you can release you don't want to compromise Integrity [1:12:11] of Investigation so you want to and you have to be strategic about the right information that gets out to people so [1:12:16] that they're aware of what's going on they have certain preliminary facts and they understand kind of the next moves but there are some very uh well intended [1:12:23] um information sharing that has to happen to the general public rightfully so but there's also uh this opportunity [1:12:30] that we don't want to pass up to compromise in case investigation often times we want to make sure that any suspects identified arrested are held [1:12:36] accountable through the criminal justice system so I'm personally very cautious about the information that we released um and it can be complicated because [1:12:43] we're also up against social media and kids that have social media parents everybody's passing information out and [1:12:49] it gets very complicated and often times misinformation and so we have to work hard here behind the scenes to get the [1:12:54] right strategic information out that's factual so I offer that just to remind people to as best you can know that [1:13:00] we're going to release the information in timely manner please be patient with us and wait for the ray channels to [1:13:05] release the correct information so that you have the facts in hand and we can all move forward corly [1:13:11] so thanks for that I think one of the most difficult situations often times in [1:13:17] ding with schools is that we're dealing with minors and unfortunately we are not [1:13:22] able due to data privacy to share details about minors and frequently the [1:13:29] email that I receive is related to sharing that information um know if we were able to [1:13:36] share that information we would and they are protected by data privacy and so [1:13:41] that is often times um including the police department I know the questions [1:13:47] that they receive as far as that we as D said we are sharing in partnership with [1:13:52] Police Department as much information as we possibly can to help Ally the fears that are in our [1:14:01] community at that time as well as um to [1:14:06] help you help your children feel safe as well so we are going to move [1:14:14] into um the questions that you've written on cards it's again a lot of information so [1:14:22] I'm going to invite to just take one or two minutes turn and talk to a neighbor what is resonating with you [1:14:29] um what did you learn that was new that you didn't know before as we get prepared to share the [1:14:52] questions [1:15:19] it's goodon [1:15:28] yeah I think it's a [1:15:48] community I think [1:16:14] so I think it's that's one thing [1:16:22] I [1:16:36] oh no [1:16:50] not all right okay again we will try to get to as many [1:17:00] of your questions as possible and if not [1:17:05] um we will try to summarize and for those of you who wrote down your numbers your names your um email addresses we [1:17:13] will give back to you directly so I think that we'll just take turnour going down for the folks who um [1:17:20] have questions specifically for them and and a lot of these questions I'm actually going to to probably pass on to [1:17:28] other individuals as well so this first question is is there anything that IND [1:17:34] Faith communities can do or can do better to support EPs and its schools [1:17:42] and staff in the effort to improve and strengthen school [1:17:48] safety so I and and that is um [1:17:56] from Pastor John good at first I thought does pastor want me to say that [1:18:02] that's so um I have been very bless and fortunate [1:18:09] to be um introduced to um Pastor Goods Community I'm really working with their [1:18:15] their youth pastors um and what I [1:18:20] appreciate is that I'm able to reach out to the youth pastors whenever I hear um [1:18:26] something that's going on in the community so that um we can we can work [1:18:31] to wrap around students um he done his mission speaks to the whole child we [1:18:39] look for certain epidemics we're grateful for all the activities Athletics that our students are involved [1:18:46] in and we know that it takes the community to wrap around to focus on the [1:18:52] whole child and so there are times where I have actually [1:18:58] gone to youth pastor and and shared some of the things that I'm hearing about and they are willing [1:19:06] to do manyi lessons and things like that within the community we've um had Outreach from our [1:19:14] mosques from our eoms to say you know we really want to be there [1:19:19] to stand alongside of you and to partner with you in the needs of our students we [1:19:25] think that that is incredibly important um a couple of years ago when we had the [1:19:31] anti-semitic video that went out we actually were able to partner with local synagogues to inform us about best [1:19:39] practices um what what did we need to do that was culturally responsive to make [1:19:46] certain that we were serving our Jewish Community our Jewish students and doing [1:19:53] that in a culturally responsive manner I am always a person um that I [1:19:59] believe in volunteerism um I know that our students have many [1:20:07] identities and for many of our students not all they do have faith and it is so a faith and it is so important to be [1:20:14] able to partner with uh local clergy with leaders of of faith-based um [1:20:21] communities in order to make sure that we wrapping around the whole [1:20:34] stud sorry I have a pile of stuff here uh you want these questions and [1:20:40] answer okay um first one thank you sros that's just a quick note so we appreciate that um the next one I have [1:20:47] here is what is happening to the 17-year-olds at threaten 17-year-old at threaten BS and theen and 11-year-old [1:20:54] was two different cases um the 17-year-old was arrested for that and then that case was presented in the [1:20:59] county attorney's office for charging we don't track and follow the back end of that so I can't speak to what the disposition of that is I can want share [1:21:06] with you from our standpoint we do the best job in the world very the case to get all the relevant information to the [1:21:11] county attorney and they make those decisions along with the court process on how that should be displ out on the back 10 11-year-old you really need to [1:21:17] be 12-year-old to commit a crime uh that case has been presented to the county attorney's office as well I don't know where that's at right now because it [1:21:23] takes some time to make some decisions around that we're dealing with really young kids here likely the outcome of that could be diversion certainly some [1:21:30] resources con things like that but um there'll be some I believe some accountability on the back end of that [1:21:36] as well it's pretty shocking for parents we have police officers show up to your house and we have strong conversations [1:21:41] about things that we're seeing out there so we are helpful in that space as well uh the next one we have is aren't we [1:21:47] asking too much of teachers and officers to be security guards in addition to their uh day jobs and then why not arm [1:21:53] guards what I can speak to is let's go back to school research let's talk about the communication and the wordful that [1:21:58] we have in here I think the answer that question for Mar anodes know the value of that school resource officers is [1:22:03] important and it's strategic right so our school resource officers inside of the school are primary point of contact [1:22:09] and so if we have an event that happens we have a threat or we have some kind of issue that happens live uh they have [1:22:15] access to their radios and the radios is the fastest quickest communication to get all the resources in so when we talk [1:22:20] about the response models all that can come in uh that happens within seconds when you think about somebody has to [1:22:26] call 9 one there's a delay it can take a minute or two to kind of get that going so when we have access to those radios [1:22:32] and all police and firefighters on duty are listening to that live information comes in it's a great resource can very front out EV event that gets everything [1:22:38] into motion uh those school resource officers are trained this is what they do their specialty uh the specialty [1:22:44] function is to work within the school they're not hold out to do Patrol work they are there every day throughout the [1:22:50] day to do a couple different things work with the Safety and Security with uh the school uh staff here on site they are [1:22:57] also to build here in place to build the relationships we don't often talk about that in law enforcement we've uh had a [1:23:02] lot of difficulties see in The Last 5 Years um just with relationship building and lack of trust and quite honestly [1:23:08] they're in the schools to also work on that and build the relationships and build the trust between our youth uh we [1:23:14] really have to Target Our Youth and get that back in line and that's a heav you left for the next 5 years and selfishly I'm also looking for future police [1:23:20] officers and so I like to have my schol service officers engaging with their youth and then getting them to understand the value and the importance [1:23:26] of having strong people in law enforcement as well so it's multi Fascinate approach in terms of why we [1:23:31] have school resource officers in place and they provide that function as well why to the second part of the question [1:23:37] why not armed guards that's a question I can't answer that's for the school district to answer and to ref to that [1:23:42] the next question I have is what do we do if a my [1:23:48] question would be help why not the RO of physical security is appar [1:23:54] different from you have to have constant vigilance and constant sit situational [1:23:59] awareness of that are I have person [1:24:06] experience so I I have some experience of that and respect like [1:24:11] SRO fulltime job is to be [1:24:17] constantly not so I can speak to that Chief um [1:24:25] first of all our our SRS are armed and so that is important to have that in our [1:24:31] schools you know honestly there's a lot of debate about that right um whether or [1:24:37] not we should have armed security officers whether or not teachers should be armed there is research that shows [1:24:44] that that may be a benefit there's research quite a bit of research that shows that that is a [1:24:50] disadvantage um J descrition security y y I understand [1:24:57] what you're saying um and that's what I'm referring to as [1:25:02] well there's research that says having individuals in the school who are armed their security they're not SRO can be [1:25:09] detrimental to Children's psychological safety and there's research that says [1:25:14] that it can be supportive that is not something that we um have looked into [1:25:19] including in our security plan at this time doesn't mean that we wouldn't look [1:25:26] at it later but that is not something that we've looked into including at this [1:25:33] time okay couple more questions that I've got is what do we do if a gunman shows up and wants to shoot up a Bus [1:25:39] full of kids soccer team Etc there's a lot of hypotheticals the short answer to that is we off we very much rely on our [1:25:48] people that are out in the community to identify suspicious activity right so if on the front end you see something you [1:25:54] call 911 even if you're not sure what you're seeing you call 911 and you get us going to the scene as well right talk [1:26:00] about the school resources officers in place on school property they have the gear they have the equipment to take care of something like that if it were [1:26:06] too right and what what's really helpful and unique in P is we have a really fast [1:26:11] response time as well so again we go back to the suspicious activity any time you call in want we're there in seconds [1:26:18] and that's true for fire as well so we're going to have a heavy quick response and we're going be there to take care of any problems I might [1:26:23] develop out next question I have is what does police presence look like after during events surrounding schools we [1:26:30] were unable to see any after seen emails uh that stated it was there so I think [1:26:35] that's referring to when we had the two recent threats events and then the followup work what does that look like for security we did talk about and put [1:26:42] officers out in schools to have some additional squad cars out on that area we too suff first from Staffing [1:26:48] shortages every once in while we have sick officers and things like that so I know for some some of the schools and we try to get our officers out right away [1:26:54] there's a little bit of a delay and we had some parents that called up and asked where are those officers and so we [1:26:59] got our officers out a little bit maybe later than what we had hoped for but that's part of the reasoning behind sometimes you see it right away [1:27:05] sometimes there might be a delay or we're moving our resources around the different campuses depending on what the threat might be or what the issue might [1:27:11] be at hand if we ever had an issue of a large scale incident where we had to get heavy duty Security in also know that we [1:27:17] have excellent relationships with our partners in nearby City so it is never a problem for me we get another Suburban [1:27:23] agency in here they had a b County Sheriff's Office they used them in the past if we had to get to that scale and scope it's we would have those resources [1:27:29] in place if the threat dictated that as well it's not going to be a problem for us the last question I have here is what [1:27:36] trends are you seeing in crime isy dinina unique uh in the incidents we're experiencing the answer is no we are not [1:27:43] unique the crime Trends and patterns that I've been seen of The Last 5 Years are concerning and they are heavily [1:27:49] focused on our youth I would say we're seeing this huge take with uh violent crime in our with our youth and it [1:27:55] varies uh from Community to community and so with that said uh we're [1:28:00] seeing this troubling Trend we're seeing unfortunately some violent crime we're seeing weapons we're seeing youth that [1:28:05] are resorting to Bringing weapons to beefs or fights or arguments and using them to threaten and we're seeing lots [1:28:11] of cases unfortunately with shootings that are happening out there um with that said we do a lot of work with the [1:28:16] county attorney's office we talk about if we in law enforcement see these Trends and patterns on the very front end and so we have these kind [1:28:22] conversations about how can we handle that what can we do from a accountability standpoint how to deal with mental health and really what's [1:28:28] going on on the kills of Co in my experience what we're seeing is a lot of I'd say mental health issues a lot of [1:28:34] disconnected resources a lot of things that were in place prior to co uh that have for variety of different reasons [1:28:40] have fallen apart and I think that's leading to much of what we're seeing as well the other big Trend that we're seeing is auto theft and auto theft is [1:28:46] carrying into other types of crimes and so we're seeing a lot of cries that are being stolen across the metro area and [1:28:52] we're seeing them being used to commit more serious crimes and you hear a lot about auto theft it is abundant increase it's across the metro area and uh often [1:28:59] times suspects will use those cars to just kind of be tree automobile and move around around the metro area [1:29:05] unfortunately some other Crim so we're trying to do a lot of work to to te that stop and slow it down and of course hold [1:29:10] the feds accountable um but those are the two areas when're to talk about Trends and patterns that we're seeing [1:29:15] and it's across mro area talked about uh some unfortunate issues that are going on in Minneapolis they are short staff [1:29:22] officers and so they're having many resource problems as well we're seeing that Trend move around and shift around [1:29:27] in different Geographic areas sometimes you see things happen in the interner City of Minneapolis for example and [1:29:32] it'll go to Brooklyn Center Brooklyn Park and we'll see it come down in banka we'll see it get El here in New dining every once in a while but um that those [1:29:39] crime types those crime WS can be very transient very mobile um and so what we'll scale up the resources and get [1:29:44] them to where they need to be to take care of the issue in hand um but it can be very fluid that way so to answer the question we're seeing some Optics um uh [1:29:52] for sure and the last thing I would say is I've been doing this job for 30 years and this is the third major Trend I've seen in my career the mid99s were big we [1:29:59] had a lot of things we talked about with uh violence homicide rats and things like that 2005 2006 we saw a huge uptick [1:30:07] as well we saw a lot of problems with our kids at that time that were just disconnected and lost things went down and right now we're in the middle of [1:30:13] that uh third Trend similar to that as well so he point that out to say I'm very optimistic better days ahead we [1:30:19] just have to come together think about how we can get kids busy you get those resources back in line and that'll help [1:30:24] us out and I'm very optimistic that we'll be able to get this treen back down may I say [1:30:29] something when I was 4 years old my six-year-old sister came home memorizing [1:30:35] a poem and I learned the poem too the policeman dressed in blue he's a friend [1:30:40] to me and you busy streets he helps us cross he takes us home when we get lost [1:30:46] we have to respect our police officers and teach that to our children thank you [1:30:52] [Applause] [Music] [1:30:59] that's it for me all right Chief Slama did you have any questions uh no I did [1:31:05] such a good job informing everyone I had that's funny um let's see Natasha [1:31:15] this is a question that came to me and I'm going to go ahead and ask you this one real quickly um are students brought [1:31:23] into the tabletop debriefs or drill debriefs to get their perspectives I [1:31:30] think that's a a really fantastic question it isn't something that we have done yet that doesn't mean that we [1:31:36] couldn't start having conversations with our students at age appropriate levels and I'd obviously look to jod for some [1:31:42] guidance on that um around their feedback and what they're seeing um either in an instant in a debrief or [1:31:50] what they're just seeing in Trends around their school system yeah um really getting their [1:31:56] voice engaged in the processes we use when we have to respond and quite [1:32:01] honestly in the tabletops we are we do move to some really private information [1:32:08] as well and confidential information when we're working with one another and so [1:32:13] um there could be a place for that yep absolutely okay who is the next [1:32:20] individual with okay IED um a question wanting to know if our staff are trained in Mental [1:32:27] Health crisis and the answer to that is yes um all of our teachers part of their [1:32:32] continuing contract requires professional development and mental health understanding it and spotting um [1:32:39] when students have needs when a student is in crisis we have staff um that I mentioned earlier our school [1:32:45] psychologists our school social workers um our school counselors at the secondary level and then we also Al have [1:32:52] collocated mental health therapists in all of our schools from Frasier mental health and so if we have a student who [1:32:59] is currently experiencing a crisis we have highly trained people that we can reach out to and in in a situation we [1:33:06] could also rely on 911 to be able to dispatch um additional support to our [1:33:12] schools um another question we had was whether or not our school resource officers have training in Mental Health [1:33:19] crisis and I was wondering um Chief bber if you could speak to [1:33:25] that yes they do and all officers go through deescalation metal training uh to handle any kind of Mental Health [1:33:31] crisis that might occur in school or out your community another question that we had was how would we protect students [1:33:38] against Rogue staff um what I can say is that in the trainings that we do um the [1:33:43] reunification that just happened we didn't see any um indication that we have any Rogue staff within our district [1:33:51] I do the drills and the practice and the planning it really kind of goes into that muscle memory when we're called on [1:33:57] to do the things that we've been trained to do um staff really step up and know how to do those things when I think [1:34:03] about school crisis unfortunately there's more in the news than um that we like to hear about but I haven't heard [1:34:10] any about um Rogue staff being the person involved and so um that's I hope [1:34:15] that answers the question um and then I got another note card Thanking us for making um psychological safety a [1:34:22] priority within our district um wanting to know what's done at all age levels to [1:34:28] spot potential mental health risks that could lead to Violent behavior and when when it's spotted what is done and one [1:34:35] of the things that I can talk about is that within our district belonging is a really important piece we want all [1:34:41] students to feel connected belonged and cared about within our district and that's the best way to find out when a [1:34:47] student is really struggling and so when we find that a student is struggling we really try and match the level of [1:34:54] support with the level of student need that they're exhibiting so we have some students where we might use some [1:35:00] interventions that could even be done with a classroom teacher or another caring adult to see how the student is [1:35:06] doing all the way up to students who would receive specialized instruction through a small group oneon-one with a [1:35:13] collocated mental health therapist um we could put very intensive supports in place because we know that preventing [1:35:19] violent behavior is um more effective than responding to anything after the the fact so we're always looking out for [1:35:26] those warning signs and we had another question about whether or not metal detectors were [1:35:32] under consideration and if not why um what I can share is that um you know Dr Stanley [1:35:39] spoke about it and you know just that there's no single measure alone that can really guarantee the safety of our [1:35:45] students and that's why we're really looking at this layered approach um and we also want to make sure that we [1:35:51] balance safety measures um between a nurturing and positive setting um with [1:35:56] the safety that a medical detector would have in place and so those are things that we're always considering that [1:36:02] balance between that um physical safety and um and making it a welcoming [1:36:08] nurturing environment Joe you have a followup real quick you know we talk a lot about [1:36:15] enforcement and crisis in here and I'm glad there's a plan I trust you guys I know you're trying really hard this [1:36:21] morning I've got a fourth grader and a third grader um and you know putting his shoes on this morning my fourth grader [1:36:26] started crying and it's he's not he put on a good face and walked into school [1:36:32] and you'd never know but he's scared so what are you doing to just give them [1:36:38] peace of mind uh even if it's as simple as telling them that it's going to be okay for the little ones um cuz I I have [1:36:46] no doubt that if a kid ruts and tears you'll get him out of there and help him out like what about the ones that will [1:36:52] never actually cry or say anything well I can just share that after our recent [1:36:58] incidents that we've had we reached out to parents afterwards um and we just shared some resources through the [1:37:03] National Association and school psychologist that families and parents can have to talk about and then what I [1:37:09] really love is I love that you shared this with me because that's what we hope all parents will do when their children are struggling that way because we want [1:37:15] a partner we think it's wonderful when parents can have that initial conversation sometimes the way that you did and then to let us know that so we [1:37:23] can labor um labor layer in some additional support for those [1:37:40] students [1:37:48] children and some kids who are buling but they [1:37:55] don't present speak yeah so I'm glad you brought up [1:38:00] bullying cuz it is it's a really it's a really serious thing that happens to kids it's really painful and we want to [1:38:05] be on top of that and so with in our district what we do have is we have um a policy around bullying and I don't let [1:38:13] me see if I have that policy off hand I don't think I have that number down policy [1:38:20] 514 14 policy 514 thank you Dr Stanley um [1:38:26] but what that policy also contains is a very clear investigation process um that [1:38:31] we follow every time we get a concern of bullying that we put that into effect and then our goal is to stop it to [1:38:37] create that psychological safety and then to be able to repair that with the student because we don't want long-term [1:38:44] effects to happen to the student and then the student who was the bully often will often have um interventions for [1:38:50] that student so so that that student can learn healthier ways to handle um whatever stress or attention that [1:38:56] they're seeking so that they don't have to be a bully anymore so we really work with the victim and the bully [1:39:02] both when does it when what do you do when that doesn't [1:39:07] work do you I'm sorry I had a hard time hearing your question what do you do when that [1:39:14] doesn't work I'm going to well go through the [1:39:19] disciplinary policy I wonder Dr Stanley if you could speak a little bit to that yes so in our district we use something [1:39:26] called multi-tiered systems of support I think with bullying to start [1:39:32] out with though it's really important um to know that there is actual criteria [1:39:38] for bullying so bullying is defined as a situation where a student has [1:39:45] intentionally targeted another student multiple times um [1:39:51] um there is a power differential and there is um intent to [1:39:59] intimidate and so principals when they receive those reports they are investigating them [1:40:06] they're getting back to both um perceived perpetrator or perpetrator as [1:40:12] well as the victim and the families at the same time um as Jody said we have um [1:40:19] a variety of pieces that are in place um that we call [1:40:26] Initial responses we call those tier one responses we know that there are [1:40:31] students that may need some additional supports and so we move up to tier 2 responses which is um more intense um [1:40:40] counseling supports um we work with families um we see if they're looking [1:40:46] for counseling even outside of school and then the third tier is incredibly [1:40:53] intense supports where it will be one onone um what we know with students this [1:41:00] question actually I I'm going to read this question because I want to make sure that whoever wrote this knows that [1:41:05] we're responding to it it was how will you protect the kids against inside threats bullying harassment intimidation [1:41:13] violence such as fighting in the halls and outside what we know [1:41:19] um is is that relationships are the key and we really work closely with our [1:41:26] staff to build those strong relationships with our students we're working really closely to bring in [1:41:33] curriculum that helps to build um that social emotional um learning and [1:41:39] resilience around empathy around sympathy um around [1:41:46] responsibility when you see something say something and that car character [1:41:51] strong curriculum that we're starting to on board in our schools along with some [1:41:56] work that other schools have done using different curricula as well are helping [1:42:02] to build the knowledge that students have [1:42:08] um Whenever there is a case of bullying or the perception of bullying because [1:42:14] there is conflict that kids just have you know we just really encourage you to reach out to your classroom teacher we [1:42:20] encourage you to reach out you know to your principal um so that they can [1:42:25] investigate so that we can catch it as early as possible I know that there are [1:42:31] times when um families say well I I don't really want to reach out to the teacher I don't really want to reach out [1:42:36] to the principal because I feel like my child's going to be targeted all the more we have to we as a district have to [1:42:44] be able to step in as soon as possible to make sure that we're protecting our [1:42:50] students um your children and so please do um report that again um we [1:42:58] investigate every report that we received and we give back to both um the [1:43:04] victim and the perpetrators families as well what do you do on that [1:43:15] work I think it would be really good to be able to have a separate conversation [1:43:20] because it seems like maybe there might be something very personal that is [1:43:25] happening and um let's talk about that [1:43:31] um so you and I have spoken about it okay so let's speak afterward and um [1:43:41] I can bring in the principal and we can we can talk more okay all right um Natasha did you have [1:43:49] questions or I mean I have quite a few okay I know you know we have so it's um 7:48 we [1:43:59] have Mo over all of them we I was going to tell everyone we have until about 7:55 and then we're going to go over the [1:44:06] final pieces that we wanted to share about website and stuff like that again we're going to make sure that every [1:44:12] question um everybody has response to the questions though yeah I mean first of all I I thank everyone for their [1:44:19] questions because I think this gives us an opportunity to continue to go back and evaluate some of the things that either maybe we need to communicate [1:44:26] further or that we need to address so um I'll just go over a couple questions and then leave Daphne a little bit of time [1:44:32] to get to her questions um this is my favorite question because somebody asked me what's on my wish list um so uh what [1:44:39] more could be done if money and time were not an object um and the question goes on about Metal Detectors security [1:44:46] guards and so on and forth so forth and there's a lot of things that I would I would do and I'd want to do but I want [1:44:52] to be really clear that what we don't want to have is the GU of safety and so we don't want to put things like [1:44:58] equipments metal detectors and those kinds of things in our building that just make us um have the perception of [1:45:05] safety if we're not really safe and so more than anything what I want our uh District to do is continue to learn and [1:45:11] grow and reflect and work with our city Partners work with our building principles work with our students to [1:45:18] make sure that we're all on the same page that we have clear processes and protocols um and language for how we [1:45:24] respond to these incidents at the same time if you're offering money and resources [1:45:32] know um probably uh the another question I'll [1:45:39] just over briefly is um someone asked who decides what kind of incident to declare so I'm assuming that we're [1:45:44] talking about of our standard response protocols um and that is done at our building level and so when a and it [1:45:52] could also be done I should say at our district level but when a building has information about an incident um when [1:45:58] they have facts they determine what standard response protocol we're going to go into um and what we always say is [1:46:05] to air on the side of caution now of course we don't want to create psychological trauma but I would rather [1:46:10] us go into a lockdown find out more information later and then go back into something such as a secure or a hold and [1:46:17] so again that practice that understanding our situations tabletop exercises all those things are going to [1:46:24] give us more practice and more information so that we can make those quick [1:46:29] decisions uh I'll do one more are you okay with that okay um there a question [1:46:35] that I have is are there cameras in the front office and on the doors and the reason that I wanted to address this [1:46:40] question is because I think Dr Stanley said it a little bit earlier that there are some things in terms of physical [1:46:45] security that we aren't going to put out there publicly because that can potentially um put our students and [1:46:51] staff at risk um what I will say is that we do have cameras inside and outside in all of our buildings um and we have the [1:46:58] appropriate personnel trained to review those cameras or review that footage if it's in an applicable [1:47:05] situation Dy thank you anasha I want to mention too that if you [1:47:12] sent in a question and it was not answered as long as we have your the reason why we ask for your name and [1:47:18] contact information is so that we can follow up with every person who wants to [1:47:23] ask a question if time doesn't allow so if you submitted a question and you didn't put your name and phone number on [1:47:29] it please stop one of the cabinet members feel free to stop me I'll make sure to get your name and phone number [1:47:35] we're going to answer every question we just need to make sure we know how to reach you so the question I want to [1:47:42] answer next is are you considering an emergency distribution list for non-student families like preschools and [1:47:49] Adina I would love to discuss this further and I really wanted to address [1:47:54] this question for a couple of reasons because one is the answer is yes there [1:47:59] are neighbors who are outside of the school district preschools in this instance we also have people who come to [1:48:06] our buildings to provide services who aren't employees they might be mental health professionals or supports and [1:48:13] right now all of our communication lists are created through our student information system Infinite Campus so if [1:48:20] you don't have a student you're not a staff person in Infinite Campus I don't have a sure proof way to be able to [1:48:27] communicate with you in the in the midst of an incident the primary focus is on the [1:48:35] impacted students and staff and so my my priority at that time is to [1:48:44] communicate with the people who are directly impacted that means that other [1:48:49] people people might find information out later and we do need to work on a system this is something that Chief Milburn [1:48:56] brought up as well for how we communicate to people who are outside of e Public Schools I think another Point [1:49:03] that's important is there are times when we've communicated about something at a specific building and a parent from [1:49:12] another building is concerned and wants to know why more information hasn't been [1:49:18] shared with them because they see that they they feel risk and I can share [1:49:25] that we trust the police and we again work with them very [1:49:31] closely I have complete faith and confidence in the in our communication and our work together if the police tell [1:49:38] me Daphne here's where the threat is or Dr Stanley here's where the threat is that's where we're going to focus if [1:49:45] there's a threat at another place I know they'll tell me and then then we will [1:49:51] act swiftly in order to keep people safe [1:49:56] something that we've started to do if we take the incident at Normandale Normandale was [1:50:03] threatened we casted a broader net of Safety and Security far beyond [1:50:10] Normandale that net extended to South viw that net extended the conquered [1:50:15] because we are we act out of an abundance of caution and sometimes [1:50:20] you'll even see the L that language in some of our notes so to get back to the [1:50:27] question that was posed and I've reached my time limit when there's a risk you will be [1:50:34] contacted if you are within our school district you will your school will be [1:50:40] contacted if there's a risk to you within the city I'm confident that ass surely as a police department contacts [1:50:46] the school district they will contact you as well everyone here cares deeply for kids for [1:50:55] our staff members and for people in our community in the event that you're [1:51:02] outside of our district probably the best thing to do until we can fill figure out a communication system is [1:51:08] probably to contact the police although I do think that if there was a risk um [1:51:15] you would have been contacted I have a few other questions [1:51:20] I've got names and phone numbers and I'll make sure to follow with you [1:51:26] personally when that put all the schools in I know what [1:51:33] call Val only have one open there was like a lot of rumors that has in lock [1:51:40] down and this other school is in lock down and nobody can get in the building and I know what you did and why you you [1:51:47] just explained why you didn't feel to communicate but like I was freaking out [1:51:52] like my was on the busue and like the transportation bus we call transp [1:51:59] [Music] like the other I'm like should i s to school like what going on so maybe just [1:52:06] like a brad quick communication like abundance caution all the schools are being placed in like a ho or something [1:52:13] so that it's not like that is telling [1:52:18] everyone down what you know what's happening yeah I think I I mean I think [1:52:25] that's something that would have to be considered from a safety standpoint um there's a lot of things to [1:52:31] consider in that request one thing is [1:52:37] um the impact of so many schools going into different um standard response [1:52:43] protocols that aren't impacted and I think what that kind of means for kids what that means for staff in the [1:52:50] buildings what that means for their loved ones who are going to receive could receive multiple messages and [1:52:58] there really is no risk whatsoever that would be a that would be a a [1:53:03] concern um that I would that I would [1:53:08] have yeah one of the things that we did in that particular situation is we um [1:53:15] did our best to Cascade information out first to the families of the school those who are impacted and then a Global [1:53:23] Communication um with that communication there were some Nathaniel was it [1:53:30] 21,000 messages that went out um across the district and getting that out um [1:53:37] what I always say is you can be certain that we're trying to get the information [1:53:43] out as fast as possible and I I'm sorry I can't imagine what [1:53:49] that was like to um to hear all the information right and [1:53:56] um if I could wipe away any of these situations and these incidents um either [1:54:03] ped or God forbid what could happen in the future I promised you that I would do that um what I do say is my job is to [1:54:12] make certain that I am working diligently to keep your to keep your children to keep [1:54:21] our staff and any of our volunteers who were were in our schools at that time safe and [1:54:28] um I hope we're building your trust around that that we are really working diligently to do [1:54:35] that um there's one more question and I think that we can get to this pretty [1:54:40] quickly what criteria is used to determine if schools will be closed so [1:54:47] one of the things that um we have to look for is what whether or not there is a credible threat and what happens is [1:54:54] often times we don't know right away whether there's a credible threat there has to be an [1:55:00] investigation and in working in partnership with the police department and [1:55:06] um if we cannot determine that it is not a credible threat I have to Heir on the [1:55:13] side of safety and make certain that I am um um close cling [1:55:20] schools um and so that is one of one of the key pieces um that we are always [1:55:25] looking at I don't know if you want to and it can take a while um to determine that what I am grateful for is just the [1:55:33] level of expertise mayor had said then in those two situations the individuals [1:55:39] are apprehended within 24 hours um in the first situation the individual was [1:55:45] apprehended uh within 12 hours of me finding out about about that and um [1:55:52] within the second situation was apprehended just very quickly I mean [1:55:58] with you know we found out at around 700 and by noon um we knew that it was the [1:56:06] 10 and 11 year olds so um again we just have our our full trust in the police [1:56:12] department we are so grateful for their their partnership um and appreciate just [1:56:17] them taking care of the city um that includes e of public schools [1:56:24] so I think that there are probably a few more questions and we will make certain that we either give to folks or we [1:56:30] summarize in some way that we can make sure that questions are answered we want [1:56:36] to end with you know what are our next steps so um we are launching a Safety [1:56:43] and Security website a lot of the information that you've heard is on that website the slide deck will will be on [1:56:51] um the website we are actually recording this event that will be posted on the [1:56:56] website um there's information on there about I love you guys about the um um [1:57:03] standard response protocols uh that we use and we will continue to add [1:57:08] information in there as we have it uh the FAQs will be um posted up there as [1:57:15] well the other thing is um it is a federal law that we cannot automatically [1:57:22] text families and so if you're interested in being uh receiving text we [1:57:28] need you to opt into that and so um Natasha has a little QR code there and [1:57:35] all you'd have to do is to send a y or yes to um the SMS uh number up there 6 [1:57:44] 7587 I think that's what that's called and um opt in [1:57:50] uh for receiving text messages and then finally it is so important that the most [1:57:58] upto-date information is in our parent portal on campus and that's because we [1:58:05] use that information to communicate with families and so please just take the time to go on and make certain that the [1:58:13] primary contact secondary contact your emergency contacts um are listed uh [1:58:18] correctly because that is the information that we use uh in the event of of any [1:58:24] emergencies that are happening I'd like to say thank you so much you you've been with us for over [1:58:32] two hours we really appreciate you we appreciate your partnership uh we will [1:58:39] um get responses out to questions and um as Natasha said this this isn't a [1:58:47] oneandone this is a continuous process like she said technology changes we get [1:58:53] new updates all the time on best practices for Safety and Security thank you very much and have a good [1:59:00] [Applause] [1:59:18] evening [1:59:48] s doing [2:00:18] ladies I don't [2:00:31] [Music] [2:00:42] know she did [2:00:48] awesome [2:01:08] we'll see you tomorrow