Retired LBPD Commander Levy Schedules Major Long Beach Conference On Safe Schools; Topics/Themes Incl. Responding to Active Shooter, Preventing Next School Shooting And Effective Threat Assessments; Details Here

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(Oct. 1, 2018, 7:45 a.m.) -- Retired LBPD Commander Josef Levy has scheduled a major Long Beach conference on a pressing public safety matter that should matter to parents, teachers, and school personnel and officials at multiple government levels: Safe Schools. The event's unflinching topics/themes include responding to an active shooter, preventing the next school shooting and effective threat assessments.

The Safe Schools Summit is scheduled for Oct. 10, 7:30 a.m.-5:30 p.m., at the Alpert Jewish Community Center, 3801 E. Willow St. in Long Beach.) Scheduled speakers include LBPD Chief Robert Luna, LBUSD Superintendent Chris Steinhauser, Los Alamitos School District Dir of Safety/Personnel Services Chris Vlasic and L.A. School Police Chief Steven Zipperman.

The event's keynote speaker will be Antoinette Tuff, who prevented tragedy for roughly 870 children in an Atlanta school under siege by a heavily armed gunman. "As the nation faced yet another Sandy Hook story of tragedy, one woman rewrote the ending," says the Safe Schools event website here. "Antoinette will share her survival techniques that she used on that fateful day to disarm the shooter."

Who should attend? The event website recommends educators, administrators, law enforcement, mental health professionals, school resource officers, counselors, probation officers, child welfare and attendance personnel, social workers, after school program staff and (of course) parents and others committed to working with youth. "Teams are encouraged to attend," it adds.

Registration for the Oct. 10 event is is at this webpage

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