ORLANDO, Fla. – Because the Parkland highschool taking pictures, Florida’s elected leaders have pledged to implement proactive measures, making the state a “blueprint” for stopping mass shootings.
Their advocacy and legislative work was on show on the inaugural Florida Nationwide Summit on Faculty Security, the place legislation enforcement and college officers from 20 completely different states got here along with one objective – to share finest practices at school security.
Fox Information Digital spoke with Ryan Petty, who misplaced his 14-year-old daughter Alaina within the 2018 taking pictures at Marjory Stoneman Douglas Excessive Faculty in Parkland, Florida. Petty shared how Florida is stopping mass shootings, and what different states can be taught.
“We have had faculty security payments now yearly for the reason that Parkland tragedy,” he stated. “So we’re doing a number of issues proper right here in Florida, and we wished to share that blueprint with the remainder of the nation. So we invited states from throughout the nation to come back, and we’re all studying from one another. And hopefully, as a gaggle, assist one another clear up this drawback.”
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Marjory Stoneman Douglas Excessive Faculty in Parkland, Florida, on Feb. 13, 2021. (Matias J. Ocner/Miami Herald/Tribune Information Service through Getty Photos)
Ryan Petty, whose 14-year-old daughter Alaina was killed within the 2018 Parkland highschool taking pictures, tells Fox Information Digital that “how we shield our nation’s colleges tracks way more carefully with the response JD Vance gave than something Tim Walz stated.” (Joe Raedle/Getty Photos)
Alaina Petty was one of many 17 individuals who have been killed on Feb. 14, 2018 at Marjory Stoneman Douglas Excessive Faculty. The shooter, Nikolas Cruz, a 19-year-old former scholar on the faculty, opened fireplace on college students and employees, killing 17 individuals and injuring 17 others. The victims included 14 college students and three employees members.
“They are saying time heals all wounds, nevertheless it’s seven years now, and it is nonetheless the very first thing I take into consideration within the morning once I get up, and it is typically the very last thing I take into consideration earlier than I fall asleep,” he stated.
“Which is why this mission is so essential. I do know my daughter, Alaina, could be happy with me for advocating for different college students to be shielded from a hazard that I did not perceive was attainable,” he stated.
The Florida Nationwide Summit on Faculty Security highlighted how the state has labored to enhance faculty security following the Parkland, Florida highschool taking pictures in 2018 that killed 17. (Sarah Rumpf-Whitten/Fox Information Digital)
Florida Commissioner of Training Manny Díaz Jr. highlighted how the Parkland taking pictures introduced consideration to the U.S. Secret Service’s (USSS) analysis on “leakage,” or warning indicators, previous a mass taking pictures.
“The tragedy of Parkland is an instance of the place all the pieces went fallacious and the place there have been multi-agency failures up entrance,” he instructed Fox Information Digital. “There was leakage a number of instances that this might have been stopped the entrance. So it was a whole failure throughout the board, permitting us to be taught from that incident.
“And we have been in a position to put in place not solely these preemptive measures with the risk evaluation, however we have now developed into risk administration, the place after we take a scholar into that course of, we monitor that scholar to guarantee that they obtain providers to keep away from a disaster,” he stated.
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He shared that Florida officers have “hardened” their colleges by creating single entry factors, updating know-how and having police or further guardians which might be educated to forestall on-campus shootings.
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Díaz stated that in all of the previous mass shootings throughout the U.S., there was all the time a disaster level.
“We all know in all of those shootings that there was leakage, however there’s additionally the flexibility, in case you have issues proper, to forestall it, even after all the pieces else has failed,” he stated.
A memorial is made exterior Marjory Stoneman Douglas Excessive Faculty, the place 17 college students and college have been killed in a mass taking pictures in Parkland, Florida, Feb. 19, 2018. (AP Photograph/Gerald Herbert, File)
Utah has taken notes on how Florida has risen from the Parkland tragedy. Matt Pennington, the Utah State Safety Chief with the Division of Public Security, stated that they’ve “paralleled” Florida’s laws.
Pennington instructed Fox Information Digital that Utah’s legislative physique is taking proactive steps to forestall a tragedy earlier than it occurs.
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“A number of of the Parkland dad and mom got here to our legislative session and spoke to legislators about their expertise, their impression and the way it’s affected them of their lives,” he stated. “And that basically simply drove it house when you’ve gotten individuals coming which might be victims and their youngsters have misplaced their lives on account of faculty violence.
“It is actually essential that we get forward of this in Utah and hopefully not have an assault.”
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