School Safety News

Welcome to SafePlans’ School Safety News blog. This blog and School Safety Incidents Map are designed to educate stakeholders on best practices and inform stakeholders on the need for improved school safety.
Many school administrators, teachers and parents are in denial. While they see continuous replays of tragedies TV, they feel these incidents “can’t happen here.” SafePlans’ School Safety Incidents Map is provided to improve situational awareness through the posting of school safety related incidents and success stories. To protect privacy, these postings will be limited to information that is readily accessible through the media.
To educate stakeholders, this blog analyze school safety hazards (and some real-world incidents) and illustrates how improved planning, training, tactics and/or technology could be implemented. This analysis is not intended to criticize those involved in an incredibly difficult situation. The overarching goal is to provide meaningful insight and lessons learned to help mitigate future events.
Realizing that the publicizing of certain information can be counter-productive to safety, posted information may intentionally lack specificity. No information posted on this site should be implemented without the collaboration with and approval of local response agencies (law enforcement, fire, ems, health, etc.) and emergency management agencies.