Written by Sophie Quinton, Stateline.org / March 20, 2018 (TNS) — After a teenage gunman killed 17 people at a Parkland, Fla., high school last month, schools across the country were hit by a wave of copycat threats. In Colorado, … read more

Florida Spent $69M on Mental Health After Parkland, but Didn’t Mention PTSD, Suicide Written by: Elizabeth Koh, Miami Herald/Tampa Bay Times Tallahassee Bureau, March 27, 2019  (TNS) – When lawmakers gave more than $69 million in mental health to school … read more

Written by: Rachel Bluth The last time heroin landed Marissa Angerer in a Midland, Texas, emergency room — naked and unconscious — was May 2016. But that wasn’t her first drug-related interaction with the health system. Doctors had treated her … read more

Written by: Amy Rock, Senior Editor with Campus Safety Teachers at an Indiana elementary school say they were repeatedly shot with airsoft guns during an active shooter training drill conducted by a local sheriff’s office, leaving them with welts and … read more

  Written by: Amy Rock, Campus Safety Senior Editor Los Angeles County has more than 1,300 gangs with over 150,000 members. In the city of Los Angeles alone, there are an estimated 450 active gangs with a combined membership of … read more

  Written by: Megan Jones, The Beacon-News, Aurora IL (TNS) – Aurora, Ill., police released audio of the 911 calls and emergency dispatch made during the Feb. 15 Aurora warehouse shooting at Henry Pratt Co. that left five employees dead. … read more

  Back in September of 2012 we first shared the City of Houston’s video: Run. Hide. Fight. Since then the video has been viewed more than 7.5 million times and has inspired several other great response videos. This month we … read more

Written by: Sam Shriver, The Lima News, Ohio (TNS) – It’s been a year since the Valentine’s Day murder of 17 students and staff members and the wounding of 17 others at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida. … read more

Written by: OnSolve During an emergency, you need to know how to send alerts to the public and provide life-saving information efficiently and effectively. Fortunately, today’s officials have much better options than ringing a bell in the town square — … read more

Written by: Darrell Smith, The Sacramento Bee (TNS) — A critical emergency alert system designed to warn UC Davis students and staff failed to fully notify the campus until more than an hour after Davis police Officer Natalie Corona was … read more