by Brooklynn Brown
RSU#3 Community Safety Night
The RSU#3 community safety night was held Tuesday, May 9th at 6:45 in the Mount View High School CPAC
School Security Overview:
- 1 full-time school resource officer from the Waldo County Sheriff’s Department
- All administration trained in “Incident command”
- All Building administration and counseling staff trained in “Comprehensive School Threat Assessment”
- School staff are trained in “Stop the Bleed”
- Comprehensive school safety plan incorporating ALICE (Alert, Lockdown, Inform, Counter, Evacuate)
School Security and Technology
- Over 100 2-way radios throughout the school
- Around 200 cameras on state-of-the-art recording equipment district-wide
- Over 40 school transportation vehicles with up to 6 cameras inside and outside the transportation vehicles to monitor student safety
- All school doors are locked and video monitored
- Access control systems implemented at all main school entrances (Video surveillance, swipe badges, identification)
*Safe and secure learning environment was mentioned as well as communication protocols
CSTAG (Comprehensive School Threat Assessment Guidelines)
- RSU#3 team is made up of Administrators, School social workers, Schoo behavior analyst, and the school resource officer, this enables staff to identify, assess, and support students who present challenging behaviors
- Behavioral threat assessment is a critical component of violence prevention and school safety. Its focus:
-Identify students and situations that raise a concern
-Gather information and facts to assess the risk of violence
-Develop intervention and management strategies to support students and prevent violence
And as always if you SEE something SAY something!