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Safety and Security Measures

- Student / Staff Identification badges 

  •  To be worn daily by all 


-Raptor visitor management system

- Student / Class meetings

  • Conducted at the beginning of each year 
  • Student safety and security expectations communicated

- Emergency contact numbers 

  • Student Handbook 
  • School’s Hotline to SRO – 981-1210

- Staff in-service of campus procedures 

  • New staff in-service on emergency procedures 
  • Monthly Staff meetings where concerns and reminder of drills/procedures is communicated

- Staff emergency bags 

  • Contains staff expectations and emergency procedures for each classroom space

- Performance of Emergency Drills 

  • Monthly fire evacuation, annual earthquake, tornado, lockdown 
  • Administrative evaluation conducted after every drill and safety event

- Staff observation/monitoring

  • AM/PM paid staff observation in areas student congregate 
  • Hallway monitoring of students by teachers and staff 
  • In-between class changes 
  • Signed hallway passes 
  • Lunch monitors 
  • Daily sweeps of instruction areas by instructor assigned to that area 
  • Class, desk, gym, locker room, etc. 
  • Restroom 
  •    Nearest student restroom walk-through during planning periods

- School Security Cameras 

  • Monitoring of over 30 cameras positioned around the campus 
  • In the process of getting additional ones in areas to monitor individuals entering and exiting areas prone to inappropriate unmonitored activity

- Radio Communication 

  •  Over twenty radio units that can respond to any assistance calls

- Electronic communication to staff, parents and students. 

  • Email 
  • Blackboard phone links
  • Website

- School Resource Officer 

  • One assigned to our campus 
  • Have access to all other resource officers 
  • Weekly briefing of criminal events involving our student population 
  • Assigned to cover events involving our school 
  • Assessment of campus/school safety and security procedures

- Rock Hill Police Department – Drug Dog Sweep of Campus

- School Registered and Certified Nurse and Athletic Trainer 

  • Provide daily health care to student and staff 
  • Handles injury reports.

- Non-instructional hours school security 

  • Assignment of SRO coverage for student events involving public appearances on and off campus 
  • Use of rental security agencies to assist in monitoring of visitors to campus 
  • Building lock downs 
  • Cleaning staff security sweep of buildings 
  • Reporting of security concerns and findings 
  • Custodial locking and alarming of building 
  • Custodial un-locking and disarming of alarms to begin instructional day

- Annual review (formal) of campus security plan.

- High Visibility of Instructional and Administrative staff throughout the day 

  •   Eyes open and observe all