Safety And Security
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We take the job of student, staff, and school safety seriously. Below are the security measures we have in place to keep our campuses secure.
- Reporting Threats:
- If you see something, please say something. Please use the to share any school-related safety concerns with law enforcement.
- If you see something, please say something. Please use the to share any school-related safety concerns with law enforcement.
- Badge-based emergency alert system:
- School-based staff are equipped with a special smart badge they can use to immediately initiate a lockdown and notify law enforcement in the event of an emergency.
- School-based staff are equipped with a special smart badge they can use to immediately initiate a lockdown and notify law enforcement in the event of an emergency.
- Weapons detectors:
- Every high school has a walk-through weapons detector that will be used to screen everyone who enters the school building.
- Every high school has a walk-through weapons detector that will be used to screen everyone who enters the school building.
- Armed security at each school:
- Every one of our schools is staffed with an armed police officer or a safe school officer. Each of these individuals has received and continually receives Advanced Law Enforcement Rapid Response Training.
- Every one of our schools is staffed with an armed police officer or a safe school officer. Each of these individuals has received and continually receives Advanced Law Enforcement Rapid Response Training.
- Training for students:
- For students and staff, we deploy two complementary training protocols: Run, Hide, Fight, from the Department of Homeland Security and what is known as the Standard Response Protocol, made available through the I Love You Guys Foundation.
- For students and staff, we deploy two complementary training protocols: Run, Hide, Fight, from the Department of Homeland Security and what is known as the Standard Response Protocol, made available through the I Love You Guys Foundation.
- Locked school entrances:
- Entrances to school buildings are locked and controlled with electronic access systems. All external access to schools is to remain locked during the day. All classrooms are locked during instruction.
- Entrances to school buildings are locked and controlled with electronic access systems. All external access to schools is to remain locked during the day. All classrooms are locked during instruction.
- Surveilance:
- Camera surveillance is used at all schools.
- Camera surveillance is used at all schools.
- Access to law enforcement:
- All schools have direct radio access to School Police, and School Police have direct radio access to the Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office and Beaches area law enforcement.
- All schools have direct radio access to School Police, and School Police have direct radio access to the Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office and Beaches area law enforcement.
- Safety drills:
- All schools conduct regular lockdown drills in accordance with state requirements.
- All schools conduct regular lockdown drills in accordance with state requirements.
- Threat management teams:
- All schools have an active behavioral threat management team that can deploy whenever a potential threat is perceived at a school.
- All schools have an active behavioral threat management team that can deploy whenever a potential threat is perceived at a school.
- School hardening:
- Through the half-penny sales tax, we are in the process of hardening every school in the district.