Rise in school shootings met with new strategies and tactics to increase school safety
0For several years now, there has been rising concern about the mental health of school-aged children. Increasingly, we are seeing the traumas brought on by isolation, technology, and untreated mental issues being played out on and around school campuses, sometimes with tragic consequences. School violence, particularly gun violence, has become an ever-present concern on campuses nationwide and is every parent’s nightmare. The rise of these tragedies has brought terms like “behavioral threat assessments,” “targeted violence,” and “school hardening,” into the educational lexicon — not to mention “lockdowns” and “active shooter drills.” For parents, it is a frightening landscape. Public safety…
On Feb. 20, 2020, Sheriff Don Barnes and his command staff honored nine individuals and two county agencies at the…
Times are chaotic due to the recent outbreak of the novel coronavirus, and employees from all walks of life are…
On Tuesday, March 17, Sheriff Don Barnes issued directives and implemented a strategy for decreasing potential COVID-19 exposure by reducing…
Editor’s note: Amid the ongoing COVID-19 crisis, the Orange County Sheriff’s Dept. issued the following news release Monday, March 16:…