Warren County Safe Schools Team

1. Warren County Safe Schools Team Law Enforcement Response to Active Shooting

2. House Bill 422 • Requires your plan to be updated every threeyears. • Shall provide copies to local fire and law enforcement, as well as the Attorney General. • In addition to your mandatory rapid dismissal drills you must also complete a School Safety Drill(one before April 1, 2007 and then prior to December 1 each year thereafter). • Notification of this drill must be submitted in writing to local law enforcement seventy-two hours prior.

3. Response to Active Shooting Why are we here? The purpose of this presentation is to acquaint you with law enforcement management of an active violent event from the initial dispatch to neutralization of the threat.

4. 2006 PRIDE Survey Results Q: While at school have you ever been threatened with a gun, knife, or club by a student? A: 10.6% of students Grades 7-12 reported they had! (5166 valid surveyed) Q: While at school have you ever carried a gun? A: 2.4% of students Grades 7-12 reported they had! (5182 valid surveyed)

6. Response to Active Shooting • April 20, 1999-Columbine High School 13 killed, 21 wounded • March 5, 2001-Santana High School 2 killed, 13 wounded • September 1, 2004-Beslan School Siege 344 killed (186 children), hundreds wounded • March 21, 2005-Red Lake High School 10 killed, 7 wounded

7. Response to Active Shooting • September 12, 2006-Montreal College 1 killed, 19 Wounded when gunman opens fire in cafeteria • September 15, 2006-Green Bay, Wisconsin Plan to kill stopped by police • September 27, 2006-Bailey, Colorado 1 killed, after hostages are sexually assaulted • September 29, 2006-Cazenovia, Wisconsin Principal murdered by student at school • October 2, 2006-Paradise, Pennsylvania 5 killed, 5 wounded after lone gunman storms Amish School House. • January 8, 2007-Cincinnati, Ohio 9th grader pulls two guns and shoots at Assistant Principal

8. Response to Active Shooting So what can law enforcement do about it? Law enforcement can quickly form a group of trained officers, maintain 360 degrees of coverage, step past dead and wounded, step past bombs or re-route your group, and save as many lives as possible by moving towards the shooter(s) with a show of force in an attempt to neutralize the threat. That is what they can do!

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11. Response to Active Shooting Seven Critical Tasks 1. Assess the Situation 2. Danger Zone 3. Establish Inner Perimeter 4. Establish Outer Perimeter 5. Establish Incident Command Post 6. Establish a Staging Area 7. Request Additional Resources

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14. Response to Active Shooting Roles and Responsibilities Point Person: Leads the team-usually armed with a shotgun or tactical rifle.

15. Response to Active Shooting Roles and Responsibilities Utility Left and Right: Assist with doors, searching, apprehension-usually armed with handguns. Utility right is in charge of communications.

16. Response to Active Shooting Roles and Responsibilities Rear Guard: Maintains rear security. If the formation reverses, the Rear Guard becomes Point-Usually armed with a shotgun or tactical rifle.

17. Response to Active Shooting Roles and Responsibilities

18. Response to Active Shooting Let’s think like a bad guy: • Acting as a terrorist, I would specifically pick the Warren County Career Center as my primary target. This target has open entrances/exit points and the general overview of the land allows me to channel how first responders are going to approach.

19. Response to Active Shooting • I would specifically use small arms and homemade explosives and a force of five to six willing participants during the Winter months, perhaps near the holidays. I would initially engage the school during recess with small arms fire, gather as many students and staff as possible and hold them in an isolated portion of the school and begin setting explosives at pre-determined points to cause as much damage and death as possible.

20. Response to Active Shooting • Escape is not an option. I would detonate explosives the easiest way possible, but would wait until the media has arrived. Sustained fear and disruption is my goal.

21. Response to Active Shooting • As a law enforcement officer in our county, I would use tools and training at my disposal. I would stereotype, read bulletins, complete interrogation cards, and trust my instinct. Prevention can only happen if you are proactive!

22. Response to Active Shooting  5.With efforts failing at preventing the attack, I must respond as I have been trained and how I train my personnel.   If the attack is in the early stages, (first ten minutes) I will gather my fellow law enforcement and lead them in an immediate counterattack. This type of response is necessary to attempt to catch the terrorist off guard, to show an immediate threat response, and to destroy as many of them as possible from a strategically poor position.

23. Response to Active Shooting   If the attack has already passed the initial threat, I would begin closing the area by using an established procedure and response plan, calling for additional resources, and by gathering as much information as possible.   This information would funnel to a centralized location for processing and would be used to establish my next option that could include:

24. Response to Active Shooting A. Wait and attempt to establish communication or B. Attack.

25. Expectations of you • Mindset-realize how important your role is. • React-training for the event is not only necessary, but required by the law. • Be flexible-a piece of paper will not save lives, action will.

26. Summary • Statistically, there are only ten minutes in which to act. • True first responders can dictate how this incident is handled. • Step past wounded or frantic individuals. • Be prepared to reverse direction or find alternate routes (bombs or booby traps). • Be prepared for slow search mode if contact with the shooter(s) is lost.

27. Juvenile Probation Probation Officer Sarah Pubentz

28. Juvenile Probation The powers of the probation department are defined in Ohio Revised Code Chapter 2951. Probation is one of the dispositional options available to the Juvenile Court, which is also commonly referred to as community control. Typically any juvenile found delinquent of a criminal offense is ordered onto some type of probation supervision.

29. Juvenile Probation In addition to providing probation supervision, the probation department provides a number of other services, which include but are not limited to the following:

30. Juvenile Probation • Drug and Alcohol groups • Anger Management group • Drug Screening • Night surveillance and home visits • Refer to outside agencies such as MRDD, WCMHRS, WCCSB, etc. • Monitor interim orders on cases that are pending. • DoA, Mental Health, Risk Assessments and PSI’s.

31. Juvenile Probation • Complete home studies for interstate transfers and provide courtesy supervision for other Ohio counties • Supervise adults ordered onto probation through this Court’s jurisdiction • Provide transportation to necessary appointments while youth are incarcerated • Search for alternative placements when deemed necessary

32. Children Services Executive Director Patti Jacobs

33. Children Services Warren County Children Service Board Mission Statement To secure the rights of children to grow and develop with their own families in a safe, nurturing, and stable environment.

34. Mandatory Reporting Warren County Assistant Prosecutor Mary K. Martin

35. O.R.C. §2151.421 • Duty to Report Child Abuse or Neglect • (A)(1) No person described in division (A)(1)( b) of this section who is acting in an official or professional capacity and knows, or has reasonable cause to suspect based on facts that would cause a reasonable person in a similar position to suspect, that a child under eighteen years of age or a mentally retarded, developmentally disabled, or physically impaired child under twenty-one years of age has suffered or faces a threat of suffering any physical or mental wound, injury, disability, or condition of a nature that reasonably indicates abuse or neglect of the child shall fail to immediately report that knowledge or reasonable cause to suspect to the entity or persons specified in this division…the person making the report shall make it to the public children services agency or a municipal or county peace officer in the county in which the child resides or in which the abuse or neglect is occurring or has occurred.

36. Who must report • O.R.C. §2151.421(b) • School teacher • School employee • School authority • School psychologists • Superintendent • Board Member • Social Workers

37. What should you report • Any child under 18 years of age or • Any physically or mentally handicapped child under 21 • Who you have reason to believe has suffered any wound, injury, disability or condition of such a nature as to indicate abuse or neglect.

38. What that means • Need only to suspect or have reason to believe that abuse or neglect is occurring. • Physical proof or other forms of validation is not required. • It is the responsibility of CSB to determine if abuse or neglect is in fact occurring.

39. Example cases • Bone fractures • Burns • Sexual abuse • Malnutrition • Lack of supervision • Unusual or pattern bruises

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42. Ways to Make the Report: • You can report either by telephone or in person. This might have to be followed by a written report if requested. • Report to CSB. • Also you can report to the local police agency. • Notifying your administration is not sufficient.

43. What information should you give? • Name and address of the child you suspect is being abused or neglected. • Age of the child. • Name and address of the caretaker or parent. • Name of the person you suspect is abusing or neglecting the child. • Any other information that might be helpful.

44. What information should you give? • You may report anonymously if you choose, but you are encouraged to give your name. • All information you can give is helpful. Do nor hesitate to report even if you don’t have all the information. • Any uncertainty regarding whether to report should be resolved in favor of the child’s protection.

45. What you can expect • CSB to do an investigation within 24 hours. • Your identity will not be released or affirmed to anyone without your written consent, except under direct order of the court. • You are also protected from civil and criminal liability if you report in good faith.

46. If a child comes to you • Listen to what is being told. • Reassure them that they have done the right thing by telling you. • Do not conduct an interview. • Contact CSB or the police immediately. • You do not need to notify the parents before reporting your concerns or before the police or CSB interview the child.

47. What can happen if you don’t report • Violation of section 2151.421 can be a criminal offense. See §2151.99 for level of offense. • Can be criminally charged with Obstructing Official Business under §2921.31 • Can be criminally charged with Obstructing Justice under §2921.32.

48. What can happen if you don’t report • Other potential criminal code violations • Permitting Child Abuse §2903.15. • Failure to aid a law enforcement officer §2921.23. • Compounding a crime §2921.21. • Child Endangering §2919.22.

49. What can happen if you don’t report • Your teaching license could be suspended, revoked or limited pursuant to O.R.C. §3319.31. • (This might affect grant status under §3319.55.) • Prosecutor must notify board of a non-licensed employee’s guilty plea or conviction under §3319.20.

50. QUESTIONS?