School Safety Procedures

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What happens in a Lock Down

- Hard or Emergency Lock Down

• An Active Shooter in the building


• A person who possesses an immanent danger to the safety and welfare of the students and/or staff

- Secured School

• General information that a weapon may be on the campus and there is no specific knowledge of the person(s).


• A need to get other resources on site to better search for weapons



 
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• - The school's communication is shut down.

   

• An offsite Incident Command is set up and all communication is routed through that site. (Fruita Civic Center)


• Our message on our phone will indicate where to go for information, if we have time to do this.
• Resources for the task at hand are coordinated, which is of course keeping our children safe.


• - What we need parents to do in a lock down
  - Go to the incident command to get information and wait for us to release students


• Why


• - Releasing students
  - Parental Safety
  - Students seeing parents outside
  - One point of communication


• Media


• Rumors