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Flagler Schools Quietly Dropped Controversial “Social Sentinel” Surveillance to Pilot More Targeted Alert System

August 22, 2019 | FlaglerLive | Leave a Comment

Students and parents were critical of district communication and management of a bob scare at Flagler Palm Coast High School last school year. The district is adopting a new emergency management alert system that it is piloting at FPC and three other schools. (© FlaglerLive)

The Flagler school district dropped the $18,000-a-year Social Sentinel surveillance system in April and replaced it with an entirely different approach, called CrisisGo, a crisis-management system accessible to faculty, staff and students.

Stop Criminalizing Children in the Name of School Security

August 18, 2019 | Pierre Tristam | 30 Comments

The rash of zero-tolerance felony arrests of children that the Flagler school district experienced last year unjustly makes examples of adolescents in the name of a security establishment focusing on the wrong threats across the state.

Signs of the Times: Flagler Sheriff’s New Recruits and School Deputies Train to Take Down Mass Shooter

August 8, 2019 | FlaglerLive | 9 Comments

A Flagler County sheriff's deputy takes out a mass shooter during training today at Community Baptist Church in Korona. (© FlaglerLive)

Twenty-six Flagler County Sheriff’s deputies, including all of its school resource deputies, trained through a mass-shooter scenario Thursday afternoon at a Korona church, part of what’s now standard training at the agency.

Deriding Focus on Trump Rhetoric, DeSantis Blames Mass Shootings on ‘Recesses of the Internet’

August 7, 2019 | FlaglerLive | 10 Comments

A vigil for the victims of El Paso and Dayton. (Rick Stillings)

Trump is facing accusations that his immigration rhetoric inspired a man who posted warnings online of a “Hispanic invasion” before killing 22 people at an El Paso, Texas, Walmart on Saturday.

Florida Senate Will Study White Nationalism and Other Factors in Mass Violence

August 6, 2019 | FlaglerLive | 19 Comments

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In the run-up to the 2020 legislative session, the Florida Senate will review acts of mass violence such as the deadly shootings this weekend in El Paso, Texas, and Dayton, Ohio, along with factors such as white nationalism.

I’d Like to Stop Writing About Innocents Killed by Guns

August 5, 2019 | FlaglerLive | 57 Comments

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So far, as hard as we try, every time it happens again we apparently have not stood up in sufficient numbers or shouted loud enough to make the massacres stop. What does it take? The story keeps repeating.

The Familiar Face of White Supremacy

March 24, 2019 | Pierre Tristam | 16 Comments

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The fad of not naming mass killers is deceptive and self-defeating, an act of cowardice that hides more than it wants to acknowledge. Brenton Tarrant, the killer of Christchurch, is an all–too familiar face.

New Back To School Normal For Flagler School Employees: How To Deal With a Mass Killer

August 7, 2018 | FlaglerLive | 12 Comments

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The Flagler Auditorium today filled with 1,000 faculty members for “active shooter” or “incident survival” training through a vivid, disquieting presentation by Sheriff’s officials.

Five First Responders to the Pulse Massacre. One Diagnosis: PTSD.

June 17, 2018 | FlaglerLive | 7 Comments

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“My head’s still not right,” said one paramedic who responded to the Pulse nightclub shooting two years ago. He and some other responders say their departments haven’t given them the help they need.

Compromise Over School Deputies in Flagler, But Look Beyond False Security of “Hardening”

May 3, 2018 | FlaglerLive | 10 Comments

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There’s an effective way to end the stalemate between the Flagler Sheriff and the school board over deputies in schools without breaking the bank or compromising security.

Pride In “Our Country”? Count Me Out.

October 8, 2017 | FlaglerLive | 167 Comments

Until the next massacre. A vigil in Philadelphia for the victims of the Las Vegas mass shooting. (Governor's office.)

There’s no contending with a president who speaks of his pride in this country in serial tweets even as his every other pronouncement is a cleave, a slur, a boast, a lie or a disgrace.

Lawmakers File Bill to Ban AR-15-Like
Weapon Used in Orlando Massacre

January 10, 2017 | FlaglerLive | 26 Comments

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Sen. Gary Farmer, D-Fort Lauderdale, and Sen. Linda Stewart, D-Orlando, announced they are sponsoring a proposal (SB 254) that would ban so-called assault rifles and “large capacity” ammunition magazines.

As Exceptionally American As It Gets

June 17, 2016 | Pierre Tristam | 31 Comments

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Our mass shootings have developed their own set rituals and denials, none so lethal as the complicity with murder that blames the wrong targets while excusing guns.

50 People Killed, 53 Wounded at Orlando Gay Club in Worst Mass Shooting in U.S. History

June 12, 2016 | FlaglerLive | 86 Comments

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50 people have been killed and at least 53 wounded in a mass shooting by a lone gunman at Pulse Orlando, a gay nightclub on South Orange Avenue, at 2 o’clock this morning. Orange County Sheriff Jerry Demings is calling the shooting a “domestic act of terrorism.”

At Least 10 Killed at Oregon College Where Students Are Allowed to Carry Guns

October 1, 2015 | FlaglerLive | 43 Comments

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A gunman murdered at least 10 people and wounded at least 20 Thursday morning at Umpqua Community College in Southwest Oregon, in one of seven states where guns on campus are allowed.

In Theoretical Mass Shooting at FPC, a Mass Exercise to Evaluate Vulnerabilities

June 11, 2015 | FlaglerLive | 1 Comment

The Flagler County Sheriff's Jonathon Duenas, a member of the department's SWAT team, taking part in today's active-assailant exercise at Flagler Palm Coast High School. (© Jon Hardison for FlaglerLive)

A man denied custody of his children decides to take his rage out on FPC students in a shooting rampage: that was the scenario around which some 200 responders and volunteer actors recreated an emergency response this morning in a two-hour training exercise at the school.

FSU Shooter Myron May, an Attorney, Said to Have Been in a “State of Crisis”

November 21, 2014 | FlaglerLive | 3 Comments

Myron May was an FSU student senator in 2002 and had been practicing law since 2009 before he shot and injured students at FSU’s Strozier Library.

Glory Glory Hallelujah: Another Mass Shooting, and the NRA Marches On

September 19, 2013 | FlaglerLive | 29 Comments

To propose reasonable, sane gun laws amid the gun lobby’s arsenal of lies, distortions and demagoguery has become pointless, argues Steve Robinson, as the nation picks up the wreckage of Aaron Alexis and the Navy Yard shooting.

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