Being retained as a school security expert witness in Pre-K12 school civil litigation cases ranging from the nation’s highest profile school active shooter cases and wrongful death cases (Sandy Hook, Parkland, San Bernardino, and others) to rapes and other sexual assaults, violent physical assaults, gang violence, crimes on school buses, and other lawsuits provides unique […]
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Fake news, fake claims: Dispelling school active shooter myths
Posted by Ken Trump on April 18, 2017
“Fake news” became a popular buzz phrase during the 2016 Presidential election. But fake news and fake claims also play a role in some national conversations and misrepresentations about school safety and school active shooters. Critical reading, analytical thinking and asking probing questions are necessary skills for serious learners of school safety best practices. Sandy Hook […]
Categories: Crisis - Emergency Planning for Schools School Safety and Crisis Training Shootings - Mass Shootings - School Deaths | 1 Comment »
Tags: active shooters, ALICE training, attacking armed intruders, crisis -emergency planning for schools, run-hide-fight
ALICE training co-founder admits ‘counter’ tactic of students attacking gunmen has never been used by an ALICE-trained school class
Posted by Ken Trump on December 14, 2015
The co-creator of ALICE training admits that there is not one known ALICE-trained school that has ever used the controversial ALICE “counter” technique where students are taught to throw things and attack armed gunmen, according to an article last week by Education Week’s Evie Blad. Blad’s article opened by highlighting a recent Fox News’ Fox […]
Categories: Crisis - Emergency Planning for Schools School Law and Liability School Safety and Crisis Training Shootings - School Deaths | 11 Comments »
Tags: active shooters, ALICE training, attacking armed intruders, lawsuits, run-hide-fight, school safety liability
ALICE Training Institute distances itself from Alabama school’s throwing canned food at gunmen, then reaches out to the school for “positive spin”
Posted by Ken Trump on January 17, 2015
Following days of national and international skeptical media attention and mockery of an Alabama middle school that asked parents to send canned food for students to throw at armed gunmen, the ALICE Training Institute on Friday distanced itself from the controversy before trying to “put a positive spin” on the adverse attention that put a dent […]
Categories: Crisis - Emergency Planning for Schools Legislation and School Safety School Crime and Incident Reporting | 2 Comments »
Tags: active shooters, ALICE training, attacking armed intruders, lawsuits, run-hide-fight, school safety liability
ALICE training gets kicked in the can: Alabama principal’s call for students to throw canned food to knock out gunmen gets nationwide, international skepticism
Posted by Ken Trump on January 15, 2015
Alabama middle school principal Priscella Holley’s letter sent to parents last week saying that the school will be “arming our students with a canned food item” to “stun the intruder or even knock him out until police arrive” has triggered national and international skepticism. Holley, the principal of W.F. Burns Middle School in Valley, Alabama, […]
Categories: Crisis - Emergency Planning for Schools School Law and Liability School Safety and Crisis Training Shootings - Mass Shootings - School Deaths | 3 Comments »
Tags: active shooters, ALICE training, attacking armed intruders, lawsuits, run-hide-fight, school safety liability
School active shooter drills trigger lawsuit and injury claims
Posted by Ken Trump on September 4, 2014
School active shooters drills are intended to prepare for saving lives, but recent lawsuits and injury claims suggest that some drills may pose a greater risk of harm than good to training participants. Yesterday’s Wall Street Journal article entitled,” ‘Active Shooter’ Drills Spark Raft of Legal Complaints” tells of a teacher in Boardman, Ohio, who filed a […]
Categories: Crisis - Emergency Planning for Schools School Law and Liability School Safety and Crisis Training Shootings - Mass | 9 Comments »
Tags: active shooters, ALICE training, attacking armed intruders, lawsuits, run-hide-fight, school safety liability
Teaching students to attack gunmen is NOT the standard of care
Posted by Ken Trump on February 24, 2014
Is teaching students to throw things at, and to attack, heavily armed gunmen really the new standard of care? This question was recently raised in a conversation I had with a veteran school security director for a large U.S. school district. He was concerned that some individuals may mistakenly be lead to believe that such […]
Categories: Crisis - Emergency Planning for Schools School Law and Liability School Safety and Crisis Training Shootings - Mass Shootings - School Deaths | 2 Comments »
Tags: active shooters, ALICE training, attacking armed intruders, run-hide-fight, school shootings
Exercise caution with full scale school active shooter exercises
Posted by Chuck Hibbert on February 18, 2014
Since the tragedy at Sandy Hook, we have noticed an increase in first responders, primarily law enforcement, conducting full scale exercises at schools using staff and students. These exercises are also coming under increased scrutiny by the media and broader public, as reported this past weekend in the NBC stories Fake Blood and Blanks: Schools Stage […]
Categories: Crisis - Emergency Planning for Schools School Resource Officers (SROs) School Safety and Crisis Training Shootings - School Deaths | 5 Comments »
Tags: active shooters, emergency exercises, school crisis training, school emergency planning, school shootings
Research data appears not to support students fighting gunmen
Posted by Ken Trump on February 16, 2014
January, 2014* An academic research report often pointed to by advocates for teaching students and teachers to fight heavily armed gunmen presents data showing that the majority of 21 active shooters in K-12 schools were NOT stopped by citizens subduing the gunman. Data provided from a forthcoming book chapter on active shooters in schools by […]
Categories: School Safety and Crisis Training Shootings - Mass Shootings - School Deaths | 2 Comments »
Tags: active shooters, ALICE training, attacking armed intruders, run-hide-fight, school shootings
School safety lessons: A teacher survives an active shooter
Posted by Ken Trump on October 23, 2013
Monday’s shooting at Sparks Middle School in Nevada ended with the tragic death of a math teacher and the student/shooter, and the injury of two other students. The teacher, Michael Landberry, a Marine and National Guard member who served multiple tours in Afghanistan, reportedly intervened in an effort to get the shooter to put down […]
Categories: Crisis - Emergency Planning for Schools Shootings - School Deaths Shootings - School Nonfatal | No Comments »
Tags: active shooters, Ryan Heber, school shootings, Taft Union High School
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