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Putnam County portal, triage teams and SROs: district emphasizes threat assessment, treatment pathways and communications
Summary
Officials described pctam.net adoption, multidisciplinary triage teams that prioritize treatment over arrest in many cases, roles of SROs/SPOs, reunification procedures and cybersecurity steps to protect student data.
Putnam County and district officials used the symposium to explain how threat reports will be handled, how school-based law-enforcement roles fit into support models, and how the district is improving communications and data protections.
Sarah Serbadillo described the county's pctam.net portal—created after Governor Kathy Hochul's Executive Order 18 (2022)—as an online threat-assessment tool that allows anonymous reporting and routes tips to a core Threat Assessment Team (TAM) that includes the district attorney, BOCES, the Putnam County Sheriff's Office, mental-health and social services, emergency services and probation. "We are immediately…
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