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Decade After Sandy Hook School Shooting, New Tech Gives Teachers, Students ‘Layer Of Security' Decade After Sandy Hook School Shooting, New Tech Gives Teachers, Students ‘Layer Of Security'
Decade After Sandy Hook School Shooting, New Tech Gives Teachers, Students ‘Layer Of Security' Gun control advocates will tell you that not much has changed since a 20-year-old gunman walked into a Connecticut elementary school and murdered 20 students and six staff members at Sandy Hook Elementary in Newtown on Dec. 14, 2012. Since that day, another 279 people have died in 189 different shootings that have occurred at schools across the United States, BBC News reports. Among them are the 19 students and two teachers who were killed at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, in May 2022. What has changed, though, is the technology that’s available to schools to help keep students a…

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by Michael Mashburn
Schools
New Active Shooter Drill Held At School In Rockland New Active Shooter Drill Held At School In Rockland
New Active Shooter Drill Held At School In Rockland All hands were on deck in Ramapo again this week, as police officers conducted several drills at Ramapo High School, after conducting similar drills at Chestnut Ridge Middle School three weeks ago. Officers from the Ramapo Police Department conducted active shooter and rapid deployment training at Ramapo HS on Tuesday afternoon, June 12, sending officers into the building to reenact what may happen during a potential crisis situation involving a gunman.  The training comes nearly a month after the Friday, May 18 shooting in Santa Fe, Texas, that took the lives of 10 people. According to CNN…

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by Zak Failla
Police & Fire
Police Conduct Active Shooter Training At Middle School In Rockland Police Conduct Active Shooter Training At Middle School In Rockland
Police Conduct Active Shooter Training At Middle School In Rockland All hands were on deck in Ramapo this week, as police officers conducted several drills at a local middle school. Officers from the Ramapo Police Department conducted active shooter and rapid deployment training at Chestnut Ridge Middle School on Monday, sending officers into the building to reenact what may happen during a potential crisis situation involving a gunman. The training comes days after the Friday, May 18 shooting in Santa Fe, Texas, that took the lives of 10 people. According to CNN, there have been 22 school shootings in 2018 where someone was hurt or killed - an average of o…

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by Zak Failla
Obituaries
Names Released Of 17 Victims Of Deadliest School Shooting Since Sandy Hook Names Released Of 17 Victims Of Deadliest School Shooting Since Sandy Hook
Names Released Of 17 Victims Of Deadliest School Shooting Since Sandy Hook Bergen County Teen Alyssa Alhadeff Killed In Parkland School Shooting The names of the 17 people -- 14 students and three adults -- who were killed and 15 injured in Wednesday's shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, were released Thursday. It was the deadliest school shooting rampage since a gunman opened fire at Sandy Hook Elementary in Newtown, Connecticut, in December, 2012. Among the students killed by a 19-year-old suspect and former student at the school in Florida were Nicholas Dworet, a senior swimming captain, who had just accepted a college schola…

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by Joe Lombardi