School Safety and Security ALICE Informational Meeting.

School Safety and Security

ALICEInformational Meeting

School Safety and Security

  The goal of ALICE is to empower all staff in the school to respond in any emergency situation. This may include an active shooter in the school.

School Safety and SecurityALICE is one part of an overall safety and security plan.

Other key pieces include the following:• Site based safety committees and audits

• Evacuation procedures/plans• Drill schedule and practice• Entrance control plans

• Cameras• Communication tools

• Panic alarms• Threat assessments• And many others!

StopTheShootings.org Map of school shootings 1992-2013

WE NEED TO BE PREPARED TO RESPOND!

16 School Shootings since Sandy Hook (as of 10/28/13) 17 dead 18 wounded

“There’s a greater chance of being killed by lightning than in a school shooting….”

Really? Since Oct. 3, 2012:

1 lightning death at school event 44 deaths in school shootings

WE NEED TO BE PREPARED TO RESPOND!

25 years of mass shooting events have yielded a national average for the arrival response time of Law Enforcement to an active shooter scene.

How long will it take the police to arrive?

5-6 Minutes

We Have Three NATURAL Responses

Flight: Evacuate

Freeze: Lockdown (Secure-in-Place)

Fight: Counter Strategies

Which is the preferred?

A.L.I.C.E.Common Sense, just not Common Knowledge

AlertLockdownI nformCounterEvacuate

ALICE is NOT a linear, sequential response.

ALICE is based on the premise that information, authorization, and proactive training are the keys to surviving an Active Shooter.

ALICE is not a complete procedure; it is a set of general recommendations that has to fit each building and grade level.

There is no way to anticipate every possibility.

ALICE moves from, “What if?” to

“When-Then.”

Alert Information is the key to good decisions

Information should flow in all directions

Provide as much initial information as possible to

as many people as possible

Use any and all available means: Texts, PA, Digital

Signage, Web, Twitter, Facebook, Bells, etc.

Lockdown Excellent starting point Locked doors provide a time barrier. Locks can, and

have been defeated.

* Windows and blinds?

BARRICADE: The idea is to create a stronghold that nobody can breach… BE A HARDER TARGET!

Lockdown is a semi-secure starting point from which to make survival decisions. If you decide not to evacuate, then secure the room.

*Lock the door. *Tie down the door, if possible, using belts, purse straps, shoe laces, etc. * Barricade the door with anything available (desks, chairs, etc.)

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Lockdown- • Secure the door and move out of

the doorway .• Look for alternate escape routes (windows, other doors).• Call 911. • Silence or place cell phones on vibrate.• Do not open the door for anyone. • Police will enter the room when the situation is over.

Inform Provide as much real-time information

as possible - by all means possible. Use the information to make single or

collective decisions as to the best option for survival.

Information can create options for us. Example: “Armed intruder in main gym. Shots fired.”

Discuss how this information could assist you?

Inform • All staff members are empowered to

pass on real time information• Provide who, what, where, when and

how information if possible• Use plain language

Allows staff members to make informed, common sense

decisions!

Counter This is the use of simple, proactive techniques if you are confronted by the Active Shooter.

• Anything can be used as a distraction. • Create as much noise and distraction

as possible.• Throw things to disrupt and create a

distraction.• Staff could use the swarm technique

LAST RESORT

Evacuate• This is our best option if there is a way

to get out safely.

If the intruder is inside, you get outside.

Establish reunification/Rally points .

School Safety and Security

We MUST change our mindset from believing that our only option is to lockdown.

The Staff will determine what the best option is to keep you and your students as safe as possible at this critical moment.

Empowering EVERYONE to make decisions that can save lives!

Why do we practice?:

Everyone knows exactly what to do when a fire alarm sounds. You’ve practiced it since you were in kindergarten (or before). The last time a child or teacher died in a school fire was …..?

1958

“In a moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing. The next best thing is the wrong thing. The worst thing you can do is nothing.” Theodore Roosevelt

With that quote in mind, we have taught staff that they are authorized to make decisions to protect themselves and their students, such as…

Pulling a fire alarm

Calling 9-1-1

Making an all-call

QUESTIONS?

Comments/suggestions for the site-based and District’s Safety Committees to consider.