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Shakopee presents updated safety protocol posters, drills and reunification planning
Summary
District leaders outlined distinctions among 'hold,' 'secure' and 'lockdown' under the I Love You Guys standard response protocol, described new staff and rental guidance, and briefed board members on reunification site planning with the Shakopee Community Center and regional partners.
Shakopee Public Schools staff briefed the board Jan. 6 on the district's crisis and safety work, emphasizing clearer language for school responses and regional reunification planning.
The district's assistant superintendent Jim McClusich and crisis-and-safety coordinator Kenny Christiansen told the board the schools are adopting the I Love You Guys Foundation standard response protocol (SRP) language to reduce media and public confusion between routine holds and full lockdowns. Christiansen said the district will display intercom-ready posters for staff and a public-facing poster for hallways that explain the three status terms and how they differ.
"The lockdown is way at the bottom — locks, lights, out of sight," Christiansen said, adding that the district wants parents and media to distinguish those rare lockdowns from more frequent "hold" and "secure" responses. He described a "hold" as an internal incident (medical or…
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