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District names school safety director, highlights law-enforcement partnerships and prevention strategies
Summary
Libby Bailey was introduced as the district’s school safety director and staff described expanded collaboration with law enforcement on prevention and threat-assessment training.
The Grand County School Board received an extended school-safety briefing that identified Libby Bailey as the district’s school safety director and described strengthened partnerships with the county sheriff’s office and school-resource officers.
Staff said recent trainings focused on prevention and threat assessment and emphasized the need for both physical-security improvements and climate work such as positive behavioral interventions. A district official summarized the approach: law enforcement and school staff "saw themselves as, coeducators" in prevention and response, and both parties discussed ways to keep officers visible yet non-intimidating to students.
Board members asked about SRO schedules and whether county sheriffs are stationed at different campuses; staff described a pattern of daily sheriff presence at some sites and SRO teaching assignments at the high school. The board also discussed periodic nighttime building sweeps (including drug-detection canine visits) and new technology such as a zero-detection system that staff reported had detected a late-night brandishing incident in a parking lot.
Next steps: staff will continue interagency safety planning, provide more details on SRO schedules across campuses, and bring the emergency MOU back next week with term lengths and contact information for formal consideration.
