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Safety report: Volusia highlights threat-reduction data and green-lighted pilot for new technologies, including drones
Summary
Captain Todd Smith reported quarterly data under House Bill 1473 showing reductions in several threat-related measures and announced Volusia County Schools was selected for the state Campus Guardian Angel pilot; Smith also described a drone pilot integrated with the panic-alert system and drew board questions about policy and logistics.
Captain Todd Smith, director of safety and security, presented the quarterly safety report required under House Bill 1473 and described the district's layered approach to school safety.
Smith said no schools were inspected or reinspected by the Office of Safe Schools in the first quarter ("0 schools were inspected or reinspected"), and he reported no school safety requirement deficiencies for that quarter. He told the board metal detectors were fully implemented at six high schools: Pine Ridge, Atlantic, New Smyrna Beach High, Seabreeze, Pearson and Mainland, and that full implementation districtwide remains delayed by vendor production issues.
Smith described training and operational work: monthly reunification-team…
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