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District completes 216 FSAT security assessments; DOE inspections largely remedied within days
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School police and the district compliance team reported completion of 216 Florida Safe Schools Assessment Tool (FSAT) site assessments and summarized Department of Education inspections. Staff said 100% of FSAT assessments met Office of Safe Schools standards and most DOE-cited deficiencies were corrected within three days; the board accepted the
The School Board accepted the district's Florida Safe Schools Assessment Tool (FSAT) findings on Oct. 7 after Chief of School Police Neil Mooney and Deputy Chief Vanessa Snow summarized security inspections and compliance work.
Deputy Chief Snow said the district completed 216 FSAT site security assessments across traditional and charter campuses during the prior assessment season. "Of all of the inspections, 100% of them were compliant with both statutory and Office of Safe Schools standards," Snow said, and added that the district had been working to standardize documentation and resolve deficiencies quickly.
Snow presented Department of Education inspection results: DOE conducted 89 inspections (about 40% of campuses in the current rotation), and 35 schools had no deficiencies. The most common findings the district cited internally were logistical or documentation issues: substitute teachers not issued Syntegix badges, missing emergency-contact or crisis-hotline information on IDs, signage for designated safe spaces not posted or maintained, and campus binders lacking requested documentation (drill schedules, after-action reports, training certificates). Snow said the district now issues badges to substitutes before site arrival, requires mandatory substitute training on campus safety procedures, and uses a campus binder system for readily available compliance documents.
Mooney and Snow also described ongoing requests from schools for capital security improvements — fencing, lighting, access control, radios and cameras — and asked the board to support continued funding and a centralized tracking process to move projects from assessment to completion.
The board voted to accept the FSAT findings and to authorize the district to implement the proposed recommendations; the motion carried unanimously.
