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Spearfish School District adopts Standard Response Protocol, approves school resource officer agreement with city
Summary
Officer Sam Funk briefed the Spearfish School District 40-2 board on the Standard Response Protocol and the board approved a memorandum of understanding with the City of Spearfish for a school resource officer.
Spearfish School District 40-2 trustees on Sept. 8 heard a presentation on the Standard Response Protocol and approved a memorandum of understanding with the City of Spearfish establishing a school resource officer agreement.
The presentation was delivered by Officer Sam Funk, who identified himself as a Spearfish police officer and the district—s school resource officer. Funk described the district—s adoption of the Standard Response Protocol (SRP), developed by the I Love You Guys Foundation, and explained how the district is combining SRP with its existing ALICE approach.
"It is called the Standard Response Protocol, SRP," Funk said. "We've just incorporated [it] with our ALICE protocols that we've been using up till now." He summarized SRP as a five-action framework—hold, secure, lockdown, shelter and evacuate—and said the language is intended to simplify responses and reduce confusion during incidents.
Funk told the board the district intends for each building to practice all five actions at least once this…
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