What do you think about the efforts of local school districts and law enforcement to keep students safe in Northeast Florida?

JACKSONVILLE, Florida. – Another school shooting occurred in Georgia on Wednesday, leaving four people dead and at least nine injured.

A shooter at Apalachee High School in Winder, just outside Atlanta, opened fire on the school, forcing students to flee for cover in classrooms and then to the football stadium.

Two students and two teachers were fatally shot. A 14-year-old student was arrested and charged as an adult with murder, officials said.

This is just the latest in a string of dozens of school shootings in the U.S. in recent years, including notably deadly shootings in Newtown, Connecticut, Parkland, Florida, and Uvalde, Texas.

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The Duval County Public Schools Police Department, Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office, and Jacksonville Fire and Rescue conducted a shooting drill at Ed White High School in June.

Sheriff TK Waters addressed concerns about school safety during one of the JSO city council meetings and the measures JSO plans to take to protect Duval County students.

“But I can tell you this. Number one, there’s the school board police department, which is the primary responsibility of the school board and the schools. But as a partner agency, we train to respond to these types of incidents. Number two, we go in,” Waters said. “If it’s one person who shows up at the school. One police officer who shows up at the school. If it’s me, I go in. I don’t wait. I’m not going to waste my time waiting. Our job is to respond. Our job is to go in and our job is to address any threat that harms the most precious thing we have in our communities, which is our children. So I can guarantee you that. If something like this were to happen. Again, God forbid it ever happens, but if something like this were to happen here, we’ve been training in this since Columbine. That we go into these schools and we take care of business.”

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The St. Johns County Sheriff’s Office and St. Johns County Fire Department also released a video showing tactics in the event of an active shooter.

Sheriff Rob Hardwick said the agency has held training at multiple schools to refine procedures and tactics.

The sheriff’s office said steps have been taken to increase security at the school over the past few years.

“We have implemented the ‘CENTEGIX’ Mobile Panic Alarm System, which is software that allows school personnel to immediately send an alert in the event of an emergency. Our Real Time Intelligence Center (RTIC) analysts have access to all SJC school cameras. If an emergency alert is activated, the analysts can immediately take control of the cameras, triage the threat, and immediately provide intelligence to responding deputies. The technology in newer schools allows the RTIC analysts to control the locks on the school doors (blocking the threat from the outside or directing the threat to us instead of the students). A Youth Resource Deputy is assigned to every school in St. Johns County. Youth Resource Deputies attend school safety training and drills throughout the year. They are viewed as the ‘first responders’… under Sheriff Hardwick. These men and women are passionate about protecting our children and see it as a prestigious assignment,” said a SJSO spokesperson.

How do you assess the efforts of local school districts and law enforcement to keep students safe in Northeast Florida?

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