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Assembly committee hears calls for more training, funding and interoperable communications to cut mass-shooting harms
Summary
At a California State Assembly Emergency Management Committee hearing, law-enforcement and public-safety leaders urged more funding, standardized training and improved interoperable communications to reduce deaths and speed response after active and mass shootings. Witnesses highlighted gaps in drills, information sharing and campus policing standards.
The California State Assembly's Emergency Management Committee convened a hearing on active and mass-shooter incidents that brought together law-enforcement leaders, campus public-safety officials and state agencies to review prevention and response gaps and recommend steps to reduce deaths and injuries.
Chief Jason Salazar, president of the California Police Chiefs Association, told the committee that response to active-shooter incidents follows three priorities: stop the killing, stop the dying and stabilize the scene. "When an active shooter incident begins, the priorities for first responders are straightforward," Salazar said, adding that interoperable communications, rapid medical care and joint training are essential to improve outcomes. He cited FBI figures showing 223 active-shooter incidents nationally from 2020 to 2024 and urged investment to finish the state's transition to NextGen 911 so dispatchers can share video and texts with responders.
Don O'Keefe, chief of the law-enforcement branch at the Governor's Office of Emergency…
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