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Alamo Heights officials report intruder-detection audits; Howard Early Childhood Center cited for missing door-log entries
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Summary
District safety staff reported five intruder-detection audits this year, four with no findings and one at Howard Early Childhood Center that cited missing annotations in the exterior-door sweep log; administrators said inspections took place and the lapse was a documentation issue now corrected.
Alamo Heights administrators reported June 17 that the district underwent five state intruder-detection audits during the school year and that one campus, Howard Early Childhood Center, received a finding tied to incomplete documentation of exterior-door checks.
Frank Stanich (presenting for safety) told trustees the district completed a safety audit in February and conducts monthly drills and weekly perimeter checks; the district also uses security fencing, single points of access, vestibules, surveillance video and school resource officers as part of layered security.
Stanich said auditors trained by the Texas School Safety Center and working through the Texas Education Agency conduct one unannounced site visit per campus. "This school year, Alamo Heights has had 5 different intruder detection audits. 4 were completed with no findings. At the visit to Howard Early Childhood Center in May, the inspector noted that the exterior door suite log had not been annotated in about 3 weeks," Stanich said.
District staff emphasized the finding was a documentation lapse rather than an operational failure: Howard administrators confirmed that door-sweep checks were conducted, and Stanich described a corrected plan that gives access to the door-sweep log to the campus school resource officer so checks can be documented by a second person in the assistant principal's absence. He said the district will submit the corrective plan to TEA.
The district safety committee, Stanich reported elsewhere in the meeting, convened June 3 with board representation, campus administrators and law enforcement to review intruder-detection audit results and behavioral threat-assessment procedures as part of ongoing safety planning.
Trustees received the public safety report during open session and later moved to executive session on personnel and other statutory items.
