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Columbia County School Board hears Safe Schools quarterly report; approves agenda and personnel items
Summary
The Columbia County School Board received its first quarterly Safe Schools report, which summarized compliance checks, threat-management caseloads, Baker Act incidents and staff training progress. The board also adopted the agenda (with a correction), approved personnel items and approved the consent agenda.
The Columbia County School Board heard its first quarterly report from the district Safe Schools office and approved routine meeting motions, including adoption of the agenda with a correction, approval of personnel items and the consent agenda.
Safe Schools office representative Jube Tatum told the board the office has completed compliance checks at five schools so far this year and found one door left open by accident, which was immediately corrected. "We've done 5 schools so far. All of them have done such a great job. We had 1 door open by accident. We immediately fixed that," Tatum said.
Tatum gave a breakdown of the district's threat-management work: the office has convened 26 threat-management meetings so far this school year, including seven self-harm cases, one unfounded case, 14…
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