For Round Rock ISD, safety and security in the wake of the Uvalde school shooting means both physical building security and mental health and threat assessment.
, where the first day is Wednesday, that means addressing both physical building security, as well as mental health and threat assessment.
"All of our buildings lock from the outside," said Dr. Daniel Presley, Round Rock ISD’s Chief of Schools & Innovation at that same meeting. "All of our classroom interior doors are lockable. When school starts, I want every classroom door in this district closed and locked." Also new is improvements to windows, in case of an active shooter. "All of the front of our buildings, the glass has bullet resistant glass that would slow down a perpetrator who’s trying to come in," said Presley.
"If there is a threat to others, it automatically goes into our threat assessment protocols which is all digitized for principals or assistant principals," said Dr. Amy Grosso, Round Rock ISD’s Director of Behavioral Health, at the meeting. "Safety is not a destination, it’s a journey," said Spencer Coursen, president of Austin-based Coursen Security Group and author of "The Safety Trap: A Security Expert’s Secrets for Staying Safe in a Dangerous World".
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