Sheria Orange Countysheriff's Department Sheriff-coroner DON Barnes Office of the Sheriff August 7, 2023 Honorable*

Published: August 07, 2023 3 pages

View Original PDF

⚠️ Translation Notice: This content has been automatically translated. The original English text is the official version. Translation may contain errors.

⚠️ Este contenido ha sido traducido automáticamente. El texto original en inglés es la versión oficial. La traducción puede contener errores.

Note: Missing finding numbers detected: F2, F3, F4, F5, F6, F7

Findings and Recommendations 2 findings

Law enforcement, first responders, and other stakeholders have demonstrated a strong interest in working cooperatively with Orange County public schools to mitigate the risk of an active shooter incident; establishment of MOUs between law enforcement and school districts would strengthen this cooperation. Response: Agrees with finding

Related Recommendations (1)

Each Orange County school district should arrange for local law enforcement to do an annual safety inspection of each school. The written safety checklist should include an audit of the integrity of site boundaries and a review of safety plans and policies. This annual safety audit should commence with the 2023-24 school year by October 1, 2023, and annually thereafter. Response: This recommendation is being implemented. The Orange County Sheriff's Department has done threat assessments of multiple schools within areas patrolled by the department. Additionally the department has formalized a process for doing annual safety assessments for each school in those communities.

School Resource Officers (SROs) are a valuable asset for school safety, yet many cities/districts do not allocate sufficient funds to hire needed officers. Response: Agrees with finding. The lack of financial resources have prevented cities from hiring more school resource officers.

No recommendations for this finding

Additional Recommendations 3

These recommendations are not explicitly linked to specific findings.

R3

Each Orange County school district, in conjunction with law enforcement, should develop and implement tabletop exercises to be conducted in district schools by December 31, 2023, and annually thereafter. Response: This recommendation has been implemented. The Orange County Sheriff's Department does regular training, including tabletop exercises, with the schools in areas patrolled by the department.
R4

Each Orange County school district should work with local law enforcement to plan and conduct a district-wide active shooter drill by July 1, 2024, and at least every other year thereafter Response: The Orange County Sheriff's Department defers to each individual school district for a response to this recommendation. While regular active shooter drills occur at schools throughout communities patrolled by the Orange County Sheriff's Department, the decision to conduct a district-wide drill will need to be made by each individual school district.
R12

Each Orange County School District should assess the need for SROs or additional SROs, reaching out to appropriate community partners to facilitate funding by July 1, 2024. Response: The Orange County Sheriff's Department defers to each individual school district for a response to this recommendation. The decision on whether or not to implement this recommendation will need to be made by each individual school district.

* This report's PDF did not contain easily extractable text and required Optical Character Recognition (OCR) for analysis. There may be minor errors in the extracted findings and recommendations due to OCR limitations with scanned documents.