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Tyler ISD safety update: TEA vulnerability review, door practices, behavioral-threat pilot and TxDOT pedestrian grant progress
Summary
District safety officials briefed trustees on an upcoming Texas Education Agency (TEA) district vulnerability assessment of 22 campuses, statewide findings about propped doors, a statewide behavioral threat-assessment pilot, ongoing intruder audits, and preliminary progress on a TxDOT pedestrian-safety grant application for a crosswalk project.
Tyler ISD safety and security leadership told the Board of Trustees that the Texas Education Agency will conduct a district vulnerability assessment across 22 campuses in March next year. Agent Millslegel (district safety lead) said TEA will use a system called Sentinel for the assessment and will be on-site about two weeks.
Safety staff described common statewide findings TEA teams have reported, with “doors propped open” cited as the most frequent vulnerability. Millslegel emphasized the importance of staff and substitutes understanding the standard response protocol—“lights, locks, and out of sight”—and said the district will provide substitute packets with a badge,…
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