New Safety, Lockdown Procedures for Kent Schools

Local law enforcement spell out plan to district

Kent Schools to Host Community Safety Strategy Meeting

Local safety officials will talk about ALICE strategy

Members of the Kent community are invited to attend an informational meeting on Monday, Oct. 1, at 7 p.m. at Theodore Roosevelt High School auditorium to learn about ALICE, a new school safety strategy, which will roll out this year. ALICE, which stands for Alert, Lockdown, Inform, Counter and Evacuate, is an alternate crisis management program used in schools, colleges and universities. A newly-formed Community Partnership Team, which includes representatives from the Kent police, fire and public safety departments, will be introduced. Lt. Joe Hendry of Kent State University Department of Public Safety will discuss the ALICE system, which helps prepare to respond in emergency situations. Attendees will hear about the school district’s …

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Kent Schools Review Lockdown Scenarios on Heels of Chardon Shootings

Kent Schools studying ALICE protocol for faster evacuations in active shooter situations

Purely coincidentally, administrators at Kent City Schools are reviewing a fairly new method for evacuating school children in the event a gunman enters a district school building. Principals for all eight of Kent's schools will meet with district officials on Monday, March 6, to hear a presentation from law enforcement experts on a fairly new philosophy regarding lockdown situations. The meeting, scheduled weeks in advance, will come one week after the deadly shooting at Chardon High School that killed two students and injured three more yesterday. Kent City Schools Superintendent Joseph Giancola said the presentation will be about ALICE, which is an acronym for alert, lockdown, inform, counter, evacuate. "The philosophy behind ALICE is …

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