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Security director outlines new locks, emergency app rollout, weapon-screening exploration and threat-assessment teams
Summary
Security Director Samuel Bell told the board the district has 14 security staff, a full-time SRO, has rolled out ParentSquare and is deploying the TapApp emergency tool at four schools, will install automated door locks at elementary schools during February break, and is exploring weapon-screening and a REOC camera-access partnership.
Samuel Bell, the district’s director of security, briefed the board on staffing, new technology and threat-assessment work intended to standardize and speed emergency response across Gates Chili schools.
Bell said the security department has 14 staff members and a full-time SRO, and he introduced recent hires including Matthew Jenkins (afternoon mobile unit), Bradley Hawkins (daytime mobile unit) and Michael Morris (high-school assignment). He said SRO Matthew Miller joined in December and “jumped in with both feet.”
Bell described ParentSquare as a digital roll call for security staffing and said the TapApp emergency tool now connects staff and law enforcement…
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