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Auburn School District outlines safety upgrades, threat assessment and vape detection after community listening sessions
Summary
At a City of Auburn community forum, Auburn School District leaders described measures including three SROs, 12 campus safety officers, a threat assessment protocol and a pilot of vape detectors funded in part by a class‑action settlement to address gun incidents, vaping and mental‑health needs in schools.
Keisha, a City of Auburn Office of Equity representative, and Dr. Alan Spiciotti, superintendent of the Auburn School District, told residents at a community forum that school safety is the district’s top daily priority.
“...we heard you,” Keisha said, noting the forum was the second part of a series built from seven listening sessions. Dr. Alan Spiciotti told the audience the district’s “paramount duty on a daily basis is keeping our kids safe.”
The district said it now has three school resource officers (SROs) assigned from the Auburn Police Department, 12 unarmed campus safety officers employed by the district, and a director of safety and security who oversees threat assessment work. The district also reported that administrators at every middle and high school are trained in a threat assessment protocol adapted from the Salem‑Keizer…
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