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OK law enforcement, parents react to Nashville school shooting
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TULSA, Okla. — As newsrooms study extra concerning the faculty taking pictures in Nashville Monday, Oklahoma Freeway Patrol stated it’s readily available to help colleges and legislation enforcement to organize and stop the same tragedy, particularly proper after one occurs.
“That is very important that we’re all skilled in the very same system in order that once we do arrive, ad-hoc so to talk, altogether – that we function very seamlessly,” Trooper Eric Foster informed 2 Information.
Foster speaks of Mission: Safe Oklahoma colleges, which he stated received each state trooper skilled in lively shooter situations by the tip of 2022.
It additionally assists with private and non-private colleges that request their coaching.
“We’re coaching lecturers, whole faculty districts now,” he stated. “We’re educating church buildings and clergy and completely different locations how to reply to these to provide us time as we’re responding and the way they are often proactive and never be a sufferer.”
2 Information reached out to greater than a half-dozen personal colleges in northeast Oklahoma about their safety and security in mild of Monday’s taking pictures.
Solely Bishop Kelley in Tulsa agreed to remark, providing a prolonged assertion of their protocols and sources for college students and employees.
Lecturers, counselors and our religious leaders are our first line of protection in opposition to the potential for violent habits at Bishop Kelley. Touching the hearts of scholars is without doubt one of the most important tenets of Lasallian schooling. Our lecturers do their greatest to personally interact every pupil and know that they’re obliged to achieve out to a counselor or administrator with any kind of concern relating to self-harm or hurt to others. College students who really feel like they belong, coupled with attentive lecturers, counselors and religious leaders who know BK college students and their households assist create and preserve a optimistic atmosphere.
We’re pleased with our referral course of and open door coverage. College students recurrently deliver a variety of issues to us and we reply shortly and appropriately to particular person conditions. Our college students do a terrific job of watching out for one another, letting us know if somebody is consuming lunch alone, fighting friends or making pals. We group intently with St. Francis Behavioral Well being, have prepared entry to Group Outreach Psychiatric Emergency Providers (COPES), the Psychological Well being Affiliation of Oklahoma and Palmer Continuum of Care, Inc within the occasion conditions seem like evolving to some extent that they can’t be dealt with in-house. MHAO has additionally offered us coaching in Disaster Response Staff administration so we will shortly mobilize a core group to help an at-risk pupil or doubtlessly harmful state of affairs. Lastly, we work along side the Oklahoma Faculty Safety Institute and a security audit is performed each 2-3 years.
Annually our college and employees evaluate all emergency procedures together with responses to fireplace, twister, harmful conditions within the space and lively shooter. We evaluate situational consciousness and the significance of getting a person plan for varied situations. The varsity completes a minimal of 10 emergency drills a yr with a minimal of 4 of these drills together with lock down kind situations. Bishop Kelley makes use of a nationally recognized-response system.
BK faculty directors full as much as 30 hours of college security coaching every year. Necessary elements of that coaching are shared with college and employees. We invite space first responders to campus to evaluate our EOP, tour the campus, and supply suggestions. Tulsa Police Division has a presence at sporting occasions, dances and different occasions. TPD’s emergency response time to Bishop Kelley is often lower than three minutes.
An armed safety guard/useful resource officer is on campus full-time together with perimeter fencing, up to date doorways and locks, digital entry, surveillance cameras, canine detection and different additions which have enhanced our security plan over time. We just lately opened our new Eating Corridor as a part of the We Are BK Capital Marketing campaign, which focuses on pupil security on the core. Additionally included within the capital marketing campaign is a brand new, safe gymnasium entrance to additional separate guests from our college students, college and employees. Past this, we require a month-to-month Virtus On-line coaching for college and employees and all guests on campus are required to examine in to our Foyer Guard background examine system.
Bishop Kelley Excessive Faculty
2 Information additionally spoke with mother and father and grandparents concerning the tragic information Monday.
“I might have thought safety would have gotten so much tighter with the faculties,” Pamela Howell stated upon studying the restricted particulars.
Howell stated she’s apprehensive for her grandchildren in Okmulgee Public Faculties.
A Tulsa mother, in the meantime, stated she is offended for her daughter for one easy motive.
“Gun deaths are the main explanation for deaths for youngsters on this nation in order that’s a profound concern to me,” the mom who wished to remain unnamed stated.
“The form of terror that they’re put by means of when going by means of lively shooter drills is a matter of concern to me. The truth that they’ll examine these occasions and I’ll must have discussions with (my daughter) about why we enable this to occur in the US is of concern to me.”
Tpr. Foster additionally stated he expects a debriefing within the subsequent few days to go over Monday’s taking pictures and what the police response was, and the way OHP can study from what occurred in Nashville.
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Thunder Unveil 2024 Draft Class
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Oklahoma City, OK – A new era of Thunder basketball was officially introduced Saturday. Nikola Topić, Dillon Jones, and Ajay Mitchell all met the media to discuss making it to the next level and being members of the Thunder.
Topić will miss the upcoming season with a knee injury. Many draft boards had him listed as a top four talent in the draft, but the knee injury did scare some teams off.
As for Jones, he said his time at Weber State as “the guy” prepared him for what he needs to do to help OKC win with their current talent.
Ajay Mitchell joins the fold as a second round choice and knows his role could be impromptu and less consistent than usual, but that’s something he says he’s prepared for.
Hear from all three Thunder rookies in the video above.
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Report: Oklahoma Baseball Coach Skip Johnson to Leave for Texas A&M
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Oklahoma baseball fans can breathe a sigh of relief.
OU head coach Skip Johnson is set to stay in Norman despite interest from Texas A&M, D1Baseball managing editor Kendall Rogers reported on Saturday.
SCOOP: Texas A&M is narrowing down its candidates, and @OU_Baseball head coach Skip Johnson will stay put in Norman as he is expected to sign a new deal with the #Sooners sometime today. Skip was most definitely in the mix, but #Aggies appear to be zeroing in on three guys.
— Kendall Rogers (@KendallRogers) June 29, 2024
Johnson had a pair of high-level meetings yesterday with Oklahoma’s administration, a source close to the situation confirmed with Sooners on SI, helping both sides reach the conclusion that Johnson will continue to lead the program into the Southeastern Conference.
Rogers also reported Johnson is expected to ink a new contract with the Sooners.
Keeping Johnson in place is crucial as Oklahoma takes on the rigor of the SEC, as his last season in the Big 12 went as well as anyone could have hoped for.
The Sooners won the Big 12 Regular Season Title for the first time in program history, and hosted an NCAA Regional at L. Dale Mitchell Park for the first time in over a decade.
Though the Sooners were ousted by UConn in the regional final, OU finished the year 40-21 overall.
In seven seasons at Oklahoma, Johnson is now 229-153 overall including four trips to the NCAA Tournament which is headlined by the Sooners’ magical run to the College World Series Championship Series in 2022.
Johnson also had his team 14-4 in 2020 before the season was canceled due to the pandemic, which would have likely resulted in another trip to the postseason.
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Oklahoma County Jail fails another health inspection
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OKLAHOMA CITY (KFOR) — The Oklahoma County Jail has failed another health inspection, now totaling eight straight inspections the jail has failed dating back to 2019.
During the latest inspection, the jail staff wouldn’t even let inspectors through the doors and told them it is unsafe, due to not having enough staff to accommodate them around the jail, which has many in the community worried.
“They said, we don’t have enough people, that’s what it said there on the official report,” Christopher Johnston, Member of People’s Council for Justice Reform said. “That is terrifying.”
It has been five years since the Oklahoma County Jail has passed a state health inspection.
The listed issues range from bed bugs, unsanitary areas, staffing issues, and mold amongst many other things.
“Hygiene; a building doesn’t clean itself,” Johnston said. “It doesn’t grab a bar of soap and start scrubbing itself. A building doesn’t not conduct site checks. A building doesn’t keep people from coming into it. That is management, that is the staff running it.”
Johnston says the district attorney and attorney general need to step in.
“He’s got to step in,” Johnston said. “He knows what’s going on. It’s happening near his office. So, the attorney general needs to to really evaluate.”
The Oklahoma State Department of Health agrees, telling us in a statement that when a jail fails an inspection:
We are actively communicating with the Oklahoma County District Attorney’s office.
For enforcement following an inspection or follow-up inspection of a facility determined to be not in compliance with the applicable statutory and regulatory standards, OSDH will evaluate and assess appropriate next steps based on all available tools and statutory authority. Such next steps may include a complaint filed with the Attorney General, a complaint filed with the local District Attorney, the assessment of administrative penalties, or any combination thereof.
Oklahoma State Department of Health
We reached out to both offices; the AG’s office said because it is not a state facility, they are not involved unless brought in by the State Department of Health.
Meanwhile, Oklahoma County District Attorney Vicki Zemp Behenna sent News 4 this letter, written by Assistant District Attorney Aaron Etherington.
In the letter, Etherington tells the Department of Health it “exceeded its lawful authority” in attempting to inspect the jail this week, and called the notice of non-compliance “void.”
News 4 asked how the DA’s office came to that conclusion, but never heard back.
Johnston says if action isn’t taken soon, things will only get worse.
“It’s a ticking time bomb,” Johnston said. “There is a high probability that something horrible will happen.”
Of course, all of this comes as Oklahoma County tries to build a new jail.
Those efforts are still up in the air after the City of Oklahoma City voted no on the proposed jail location.
The Board of County Commissioners for Oklahoma County has since filed a lawsuit against the City of Oklahoma city over sovereignty of the land.
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