News4JAX followed along Wednesday as Duval County School Police ran an active shooter drill with volunteers at Crown Point Elementary School.
The district wanted to find out how well the plan they have in place to respond to such an event would work and how the technology would hold up.
Then, teachers and staff walked through the process of receiving parent actors at the scene, taking them to the holding area where they would be waiting in a live situation, and then, one by one, using the district’s emergency app to match up students and parents. The public isn’t allowed to know more for security reasons, but, Burton said uncovering the hiccups is why the training is so vital, because it makes them less likely to happen in a real-world scenario.
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