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Friday, March 8, 2013

Stoughton School, Police Officials Talk to Parents About ALICE School Shooter Response Program

The ALICE program encourages a more flexible response to an active shooter situation. The next step in the process of implementing the program will be to instruct Stoughton teachers about ALICE.

After participating in a training program and making a presentation to the Stoughton School Committee, Stoughton school and police officials took the another step Tuesday in putting the ALICE school shooter response program into operation by holding a forum for parents at the O'Donnell Middle School media center. In the wake of the Newtown, CT shooting in December and past tragedies at Virginia Tech and at Columbine High School in Colorado, different methods of dealing with the unthinkable happening in Stoughton are going to be used. O'Donnell Middle School assistant principal David Guglia and Stoughton High assistant principal Michael O'Neil outlined the program for the parents.  Past protocol in the event of a school shooting involved …

Friday, February 15, 2013

Stoughton School Officials, Police Support ALICE School Shooter Response Program

Stoughton School officials and members of the Stoughton Police recently took part in ALICE school shooter response training, hosted by the Norfolk County DA. The program encourages a more flexible response to an active shooter situation.

You wouldn't stay in a building that was filling up with smoke, so why do so if there was an active shooter in the building, Stoughton Police Chief Paul Shastany reasons. The common practice has been for a school to go into lockdown if there was an active shooter in the building, but the more passive approach might not be as effective as a more proactive defense, supporters of the ALICE program say. ALICE - an acronym for Alert, Lockdown, Inform, Counter, Evacuate - was developed by Greg Crane, a former SWAT police officer, and Lisa Crane a school principal.  Chief Shastany spoke to the Stoughton School Committee about the ALICE program and its benefits at the Committee's Feb. 12 meeting. Like, the Chief, it's something the Stoughton …

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