What are North Dakota schools doing to keep children safe?

On Tuesday, 19 youngsters and two lecturers had been killed and 17 others had been injured in a Texas elementary college capturing.

Now, many dad and mom are reaching out and asking what faculties are doing to maintain our kids protected right here in North Dakota.

We spoke with Don Moseman from the state’s Security Council. He says college shootings will not be new, however modern-day expertise is, and in his opinion expertise may have a nasty influence on college security.

“Folks which might be struggling in some facet of their life, whether or not it’s psychological well being, whether or not it’s feeling like they’ve been remoted, whether or not it’s household points, they discover folks out within the on-line hemisphere prepared to kind of join with them about these points they usually turn into their cheerleaders. I might say, on the whole, faculties are a lot safer than they had been let’s say 20 years in the past; I believe the overwhelming majority of faculties have in all probability taken some steps in the direction of safety. The way in which I have a look at this proper are sort of just like the layers of an onion,” Moseman stated.

So what are these layers?

“Colleges have cameras, however only a few of them actively monitor the cameras in real-time,” Moseman stated.

He provides if nobody is consistently watching cameras, at that time they’re solely good for investigative functions, not preventative.

“Having a college security officer, a college useful resource officer, is a layer. There’s great knowledge that means that with an SRO there, that simply the probability of an occasion drops dramatically,” he stated.

Moseman says that although no two college shootings are precisely the identical, preparation is the most effective security measure.

100 faculties out of the 1,155 within the state have been educated by the North Dakota Security Council, recommending that others do as nicely.