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Managing Uncertainty – Episode #30: Threat Management in Educational Institutions
We don’t do politics on our podcast, but given last week’s tragedy in Florida, we thought it would be worthwhile to talk about threat management processes in educational institutions. In particular, the threat management environment in a K-12 school is quite different than what we typically encounter in a business or university environment.
In this episode of the Managing Uncertainty Podcast, Bryghtpath Principal & CEO Bryan Strawser and Senior Consultant Jennifer Otremba talk through their recommendations on the threat management processes and challenges in a K-12 educational environment. Both Bryan and Jen are members of the Association of Threat Assessment Professionals and have extensive experience in threat management and assessment. Topics discussed include risk criteria, mitigation planning, threat management teams, involvement from law enforcement, and other challenges.
Episode Transcript
Bryan: We don’t do politics on this podcast.
Jen: No. It’s not really the right place.
Bryan: Not the right place for it. This is our professional lives, and our personal, political affiliations really have nothing to do with what we talk about here. We’re recording this the week after the shooting in Florida that has the country’s attention right now, and we wanted to talk about how this relates to our area of expertise when it comes to threat management.
As we look at the facts of this situation, and we’re going to try to do this in a non-blameful way, because I don’t think we know enough yet to know who might be at fault, or are there agencies that are at fault? I’m not sure that that really matters in terms of blame. But we do know that this individual had a track record of some issues. And in just what we’ve heard so far, there were at least two individuals that thought enough concern to contact the FBI and report some information.
But we’ve learned more about the number of police incidents that occurred at the shooter’s residence over the last several years, a number of encounters with Florida’s social service agencies related to issues. And then apparently, some track record of threatening behavior at the school that led to his expulsion, I believe, is how that has been explained by the school district.
Jen: Yeah. Some of which is being reported in the media and we don’t know the truth to all of it yet, of course, as it’s being reported, but we do know that there was a tip, at least, that went all the way to the FBI, and the FBI has come out and made a report on that.
But that’s not necessarily what we want to talk about today exactly. We want to talk about what an appropriate threat management process would look like in an educational institution.
Bryan: So we’ve talked before about the need to have a robust and appropriate threat management processes within an organization. So let’s just review that and then take maybe the educational context of that.
But when we talk about a threat management system for an organization of any type, Jen, what are we really talking about that needs to be in place.
Jen: Yeah, so ultimately we’re looking at a process. A process where individuals can report something that may be a suspicious behavior, it could be a threat that was made, there could have been an assault that was done. But some kind of process that escalates information up to somebody who can evaluate it, who can look at the information as they see, they can look the individuals involved and they can determine, is this a high-risk, low-risk, medium-risk threat, or what is the situation with that?
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We don’t do politics on our podcast, but given last week’s tragedy in Florida, we thought it would be worthwhile to talk about threat management processes in educational institutions. In particular, the threat management environment in a K-12 school is quite different than what we typically encounter in a business or university environment.
In this episode of the Managing Uncertainty Podcast, Bryghtpath Principal & CEO Bryan Strawser and Senior Consultant Jennifer Otremba talk through their recommendations on the threat management processes and challenges in a K-12 educational environment. Both Bryan and Jen are members of the Association of Threat Assessment Professionals and have extensive experience in threat management and assessment. Topics discussed include risk criteria, mitigation planning, threat management teams, involvement from law enforcement, and other challenges.
Episode Transcript
Bryan: We don’t do politics on this podcast.
Jen: No. It’s not really the right place.
Bryan: Not the right place for it. This is our professional lives, and our personal, political affiliations really have nothing to do with what we talk about here. We’re recording this the week after the shooting in Florida that has the country’s attention right now, and we wanted to talk about how this relates to our area of expertise when it comes to threat management.
As we look at the facts of this situation, and we’re going to try to do this in a non-blameful way, because I don’t think we know enough yet to know who might be at fault, or are there agencies that are at fault? I’m not sure that that really matters in terms of blame. But we do know that this individual had a track record of some issues. And in just what we’ve heard so far, there were at least two individuals that thought enough concern to contact the FBI and report some information.
But we’ve learned more about the number of police incidents that occurred at the shooter’s residence over the last several years, a number of encounters with Florida’s social service agencies related to issues. And then apparently, some track record of threatening behavior at the school that led to his expulsion, I believe, is how that has been explained by the school district.
Jen: Yeah. Some of which is being reported in the media and we don’t know the truth to all of it yet, of course, as it’s being reported, but we do know that there was a tip, at least, that went all the way to the FBI, and the FBI has come out and made a report on that.
But that’s not necessarily what we want to talk about today exactly. We want to talk about what an appropriate threat management process would look like in an educational institution.
Bryan: So we’ve talked before about the need to have a robust and appropriate threat management processes within an organization. So let’s just review that and then take maybe the educational context of that.
But when we talk about a threat management system for an organization of any type, Jen, what are we really talking about that needs to be in place.
Jen: Yeah, so ultimately we’re looking at a process. A process where individuals can report something that may be a suspicious behavior, it could be a threat that was made, there could have been an assault that was done. But some kind of process that escalates information up to somebody who can evaluate it, who can look at the information as they see, they can look the individuals involved and they can determine, is this a high-risk, low-risk, medium-risk threat, or what is the situation with that?