Description

The Virginia Department of Criminal Justice Services (DCJS) is pleased to partner with Dr. John More, CEO of Response Law, LLC, to offer an opportunity to attend a one-day workshop titled “Addressing Legal Concerns and Issues in K-12 Threat Assessment”.  Dr. More will provide a comprehensive look at creating and enhancing the threat management process including legal aspects and mitigation of potential challenges.

Topics to Be Addressed

• Structural Formation
  • Defining the Duty of Care Under Virginia Law for Threat Recognition and Response
  • Establishing a School-wide Security Committee
  • Formulating a School-Police Communications Plan
  • Strategic Language for Threat Management Policies
  • Practical and Effective Search & Seizure Strategies to Reduce Threat Risk

• Establishing a Threat Assessment Team
  • Virginia Legislative Requirements
  • Strategic Membership Selection
  • Defined Mission Statement
  • The Importance of Member Rotation
  • Creating a Threat vs. Misbehavior Decision Matrix
     
• Constructing a School-wide Information Sharing System
  • Balancing Safety with Confidentiality
  • Information Transfer—Team to School to Police to Parents
  • Exchange of Verbal vs. Written Information Under Virginia Law
  • Mandated vs. Optional Reporting Under Virginia Law
     
• Operational Considerations
  • Behavior Recognition Techniques
  • Suspicious Activity Reporting
  • Educating Parents and Students on Threat Recognition
  • Liaison/Capacity Building with Local Law Enforcement Agencies
     
• Threat-related Legal Issues
  • Security Technology and Its Role in Threat Assessment
  • Hiring a Security Consultant—Legal Considerations
  • Tabletop Drills for Threat Recognition, Reporting, and Response
  • Vulnerability Assessments

Who should attend?

This training is being offered at no cost to K-12 school emergency managers, school division leaders, principals and assistant principals, school counselors, and law enforcement serving in schools as well as other members of school and division emergency threat assessment teams.

Partial In-service Credit

Law enforcement officers serving in schools who complete this workshop are eligible to receive partial in-service credit hours. 

Cost

There is no fee to attend this workshop and all training materials will be provided for registrants.

Travel, Lodging, and Meals

Participants are responsible for their transportation, meals, and lodging arrangements and expenses.

Training Time & Details

• Check-in for training will begin at 7:30 a.m.
• Training begins promptly at 8:00 a.m. and concludes at 4:00 p.m.

Registration

Pre-registration is required. Please note that the DCJS registration system does not have the capacity to sort eligible from ineligible registrants. Therefore, anyone who registers will receive a confirmation. It is the responsibility of the DCJS assigned course director to review the roster and make a final determination on acceptance into the course. Registrants not accepted will be notified via the email address provided during registration.