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Dept. of Education Hosting Safety and Security Tours at Public School Facilities in Wake of Mass Shooting at School in Texas

The V.I. Dept. of Education, Division of Disaster Planning and School Security has organized a series of school tours with first-responding agencies to assess the safety and security of the territory’s public-school campuses in the event of an emergency, crisis, or threat, the department announced Wednesday. Professionals with the Virgin Islands Fire Service, Virgin Islands Police Department, Virgin Islands Rescue, EMS, and the Department of Education’s Facilities Division are participating in the tours. According to the release, on the heels of the recent mass shooting at Robb Elementary in Uvalde, TX that claimed the lives of 19 students and two school employees, Irvin Mason, the department's director of disaster planning and school security, along with Dr. Dionne Wells-Hedrington, Education's chief operations officer said this is the first of what will become annual campus tours organized for the sole purpose of identifying and addressing potential security weaknesses on school ca...