The Partner Alliance for Safer Schools (PASS) recently released the sixth edition of its Safety and Security Guidelines for K-12 Schools, which offers best practices for securing school facilities from subject matter experts across the education, public safety and industry sectors.
According to the PASS guidelines document, schools have been the second most frequent targets in active shooter incidents as defined by the FBI since 2000. Highly publicized mass murders such as Columbine High School, Sandy Hook Elementary School, Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School and most recently The Covenant School in Nashville, have led to reassessments of how administrators can manage risk in the modern K-12 environment.