School Safety Commission

Okay. Right. The and foremost we're here for a very very specific purpose my name is Syed Dr Cheryl may I'm director of the criminal justice institute and the Arkansas center for school safety we're here because of the great governor that we have our governor Aissa Hutchinson of who reconvene the Arkansas school safety commission I want to thank governor Hutchinson offer his extraordinary leadership we would not be where we are today if it were not for him making this Ascot as high a priority as he has I want to first of all get started by asking you all to have a moment of silence. We lost nineteen. You for children. Two incredible teachers. Just here recently. We're also on the heels of Santa Fe parkland our own Watson chapel Prescott. Are we cannot forget Columbine and of course our own west side bona. Being here is kind of a I have really really mixed feelings about it I'm saddened I'm angry. But at the same time I think that when we talk about the moment of silence in support of the victims their families everybody within the school the entire involved a community that we can we cannot just do that. We we have to ensure that we're going to do everything that we possibly can to use this moment to make sure every single child in Arkansas schools and the staff are safe. And that's going to be our mission moving forward you know we've. We've had a lot of people that have worked an enormous amount for a very very long time and I want to give back very very special thank you onto a couple of individuals are first and foremost I want to thank secretary key. we have been partners in school safety off for an extremely long period of time and every bit of the progress that we made would not have been possible without his support and the support of his incredible staff we have within desi the safe schools committee. Our and we meet. At least every other month we have never stopped meeting on and we have been very very focused on doing everything that we can for our kids we know. That even though we have made progress that there's a lot more that we can do I also want to thank us Speaker Shepherd. R. and his staff for helping set this up but I also want to thank all the legislators that have been there to support us in passing so many of the bills are in twenty nineteen twenty twenty one that have had a direct impact on the safety of our kids. I want to say thank you to all the commission members and congratulations. but I also want to give you my condolences. Because we're going to have to work really really hard. We're gonna have to roll up our sleeves we've got an extremely tight time line and we're going to have to make an enormous amount of progress in in a short period of time. So having said that I think maybe the way that we start we have an extremely Special guest that's also on the commission General Rutledge so if you don't mind ma'am would you take a minute and I don't think you need to introduce yourself but just in case and you say a few things about school safety and not know what's important to you you were there for the Arkansas center for school safety when we almost went broke and I think you know shall. Tremendously grateful I am for you supplying funding for us when you do that so please. Thank you Dr may and. What an honor it is to to serve on this commission in two thousand eighteen I served and appoint and designated will Jones who is now been elected to be the prosecuting attorney imply scheme Perry counties and this is an opportunity really for the state of Arkansas to look back at what we this commission passed in two thousand eighteen the laws that we pass since that time to make sure that we're doing everything possible and state to provide the guidance the training and the tools necessary to keep our children safe as the mom of an almost four year old will be starting pre K. this year. I know the concern that parents have when they leave their child in someone else's hands my mother taught elementary special education for thirty four years. Not one day. Did she have to worry about anything but loving and taking care of those kids and we need to make sure that those teachers are only worrying about educating and loving those children that those children are only worried about getting an education be loved and going back home to a safe place at night and I am honored to be on this commission and will do everything I can is the Attorney General to make sure that we get great guidelines but more importantly the resources necessary to keep the children Arkansas safe so thank you Dr my thank you ma'am very very much so Secretary cook I do want to started if you guys can introduce yourself and please take a moment to talk about why school safety is so important to you. Well good afternoon everyone I'm Jamie cook I'm the secretary for the department of public safety I'm also the director for the commission on law enforcement standards and training I had the great privilege to serve on this commission in two thousand and eighteen and I'm equally privilege to to a roll up my sleeves as you say Dr right and server can to protect our children our teachers and everyone that's mission is to educate our children and that should be the thing that is at the forefront of all of our minds is to make sure that we provide a safe place for them to do just that so I'm glad to be here. Thank you Secretary cook. I'm bill Gossage I'm governor Hutchinson's deputy chief of staff. Of the school administrators school teacher for thirty four years so school safety thank your kids as been my life. It's an honor to be on this committee. Thank you would have most certainly has been your life Sir. I'm David Hopkins on the superintendent for the Clarksville school district and obviously school safety is of most concern for me and for all the the people that in charge of it take care of back a Clarksville and we've been working on this for a number of years their Clarksville and hope to see good things come out of this this meeting thank you yeah thank you for your willingness to serve Dr Hopkins. Thirty eighth at my command as executive director for the ministers association just grateful for the opportunity to serve on this commission I think it's very important as we review a lot of the work that's been done over the past several years related to school safety like Dr may said the committee's been working really hard and trying to make these recommendations reality I think it's this can be a great opportunity for us to to look at those moved forward and and accelerator enhance some of the recommendations are there because it is important work and I know we've got a lot of things that we've got to do administrators teachers students across state are counting on us to make good decisions for him for them and just looking for to be part of the. Thank you Dr Hernandez. Chief my name is Chris Chapman the chief of police in hot springs and also the president they are so T. sociais Asian also a instructor a curry similar structure so we're very closely with our schools in our local school districts in garland county look forward to making some progress. Thanks for being here chief. I'm Tim Kaine I'm the director of facilities and transportation with the department of education my predecessor Brad Montgomery served on this commission is my honor to serve the people of Arkansas to serve until. Thank you. Cortisol is Ford and the chief legal counsel for the department of education and on behalf of secretary key and the entire department are of course mission is to make sure that kids are getting the best education that they can get and they can't learn if they don't feel safe and if the teachers don't feel safe we work very closely with Dr Mary and the Arkansas center for school safety and through the desi safe schools committee elect him said to make progress and to make sure that we are fulfilling the recommendations of the commission and so we look forward to continuing to work with them and to work with all of you to make sure that we are doing everything we can for students in Arkansas great thank you Courtney and let me just say to that you know we work we have the opportunity to work very closely on this last batch a legislation and I know I've told you this before but we couldn't made it without you so thank you for all your efforts. Good afternoon I'm AJ Gary I'm a director of the Arkansas division of emergency management was on the original Commission and doctor may we had quite a few meetings since then will put a lot of recommendations last time I look forward to seeing what we can do this time and can assure everyone that the Arkansas division of emergency management team is ready to assist in any way thank you thank you director Gary. I'm John Allison I'm a teacher and bus driver it plan house school I was the only Commission twenty eighteen was really proud of the work we did back then of we teach kids they become more kids that's hard for everyone to understand nothing about those nineteen kids who died last week it's it's it's just I don't see those I don't see that in our school I don't see any Arkansas school again and we can do anything here to stop that from happening unless the yeah you were true your voice was a very after mundus asset last time Sir so thank you. I'm Linda Speer Graham from Johns brought the crisis director mental health director and school psychologists for Nettleton. A little bit of all of it I'm here I guess basically because twenty four years ago and Jones for all of our world was rocked and and nail to now we have our superintendent was a west side middle school principal we have made in illustrator as many teachers and now we have some kids who were there who are in our teachers so when a volley happened especially this one seems to have resonated a little bit. Different so spend lot of time last couple weeks how can people and just talking some things out so it's a privilege to be great. Thank you Linda. Laurie Posten I am the clinical vice president for research health center northeast region which is the general area have an honor to work with Linda since west side even before and served on the commission the first time and I was very honored to get the phone call to come back That that information about Texas hit hard. For all of us and For some reason they hit me different than most and was feeling that when I got the phone call so I feel like it was definitely. The right call the right time and I'm looking for this seeing what we can do I've been community mental health for seventeen years I worked with our schools and this is a big a big passion so you did a great job the last time Laurie great to have you back. Hi I'm Paula stone I'll work for the Arkansas department of Human Services I work with Arkansas Medicaid and with the division of aging adult and behavioral health services I'm new to the commission for this round the and I have worked in children's mental health for thirty years now. So and I worked on the community mental health sites have been a provider services I'm LCSW subgroup bided therapy services to children and youth and then I've been in the state back instead I left the state and worked in and other states always in children's mental health and have been back since two thousand and nine so really looking towards The goals of making sure that children get the mental health services they need however that funded access to those services at the right time in the right services so that's something that we work on perspective and is very important so so we can see people progressing in making sure that they get what they need welcome. Good afternoon I'm Patricia can I work for the Department of Human Services and the deputy director the Division of aging adult bearable have services and behavioral health chief for the state of Arkansas I'm a licensed professional counselor and I've been providing and counseling services or worked in the counseling field for almost thirty years and worked with children I've worked in private community mental health centers and in different areas of the state and we're very committed to making sure that our children get the services they need and that we identify those children who need those services so that we can make everyone safe so thank you I'm brand new to the commission and so we're we're very lucky to have you both. My name's bill Holland become the chief of police for the portion public schools police department before that I was the sheriff of Sebastian County like to thank the governor Hutchinson for recommissioning this commission bringing it back we have a lot of important work to do my wife is been an educator for about twenty five years I think this is a vitally important not just for the state of Arkansas but also for the entire country that we roll up our sleeves and and go to work I work closely with the sheriff's association and the governor's office to establish or stabilization units throughout the state I certainly understand the importance of mental health also in the of the the version of of actual violence before it actually happens and mental health and is is so important in identifying children at risk also with a fourteen public schools we just completed over fifteen point one million dollars and security upgrades to our schools when it comes to controlled access increased lighting and so forth so very honored to be on the commission and look forward to working with all of the great thank sheriff I mean Chief you'll have to forgive me for getting confused from time to time. In all speaking of sheriff. Barely the. Tim Helder serve Washington County. Forty third year of law enforcement the quickly approaching the the end of that business but I can't think of a better way to go out and to develop meaningful. Initiatives and changes within this process to coin a phrase I think doctor Hopkins drove home last time was we can either make sure that our kids and teachers feel safer we can ensure that they are safe and I think that's a. That's kind of my goal I know that it's a it's a holistic approach there are many facets to what we're doing but from a law enforcement perspective doc I think that's primarily my my goal thank you yeah you were tremendous asset to our on Alaska Commission and even though I know you're not going to be in law enforcement I know you're going to have a an impact with this group as well sheriff thank you very very much now I think we have a couple of folks who are Virtual I think Ricky Hopkins. Is there. Yes ma'am yes ma'am I'm here any. Do you want to introduce yourself and Tell us why school safety is so important to you. Yes ma'am I will thank you for allowing me this opportunity and my name's Ricky Hopkins. A Muslim I'm a father and I'm a grandfather and my grandson bistro sixteen months old today and that's why it's very important to me on a personal note but. Overall I mean there's nothing more important. In our children our future. And ensure their safety is very important so thank you for allowing me to be part of this. Yeah we're thrilled to have him back again Breaky thank you very very much I did I see Marvin Burton on there as well Marvin can you hear me I can can you hear me yeah it's good to see you as the as well I I bring greetings from Little Rock south was magnet high school Marmion burden us thirty four years in education as of July one and I'm a principal now at a little rock southwest high school which twenty one hundred students returning commission Worker shall I say and it's important to me to glean as much as I possibly can to create a safe secure environment for the for the scholars of the State of Arkansas would recommendations that will be systemic across our state so out it was a hundred proves to be also asked to serve the commission again so I look forward to the work and the dedication to secure our our schools and create a safe learning environment for all original. It's great to have you back Marvin. I think I also see doctoral or done. I there Laura Dunn I am the chair of psychiatry at the university of Arkansas for medical sciences new to the commission thank you for this opportunity to serve and try the collaborating and provide any any help that we can through our to our department as I know I'm a parent as well so it's a just a. Very critical area for me from both of mental health perspective and a personal perspective. Right thank you very much for being a part of this commission this go around I doubt did you make it on. I am I am here they're not already. Nice to see you sorry I couldn't be there that's okay completely understandable. Yes ma'am I am the school counselor at Adam burns elementary in Conway Arkansas I too am a parent but I also feel select on the panel all four hundred and ten students off in my doors every day. So I appreciate you are asking me to be a part of this commission I'm new to the commission and I want to do everything I can to keep our students safe. In school and out of school. Great thank you Donna it's a it's a. Leisure to have you on board this time. Hi it's crystal. It's crystal with us today. Okay and then the only other person that's on the commission that's not able to be here today I is Oh goodness gracious that sob. Almost everyone said bill Gossage but it's a different bill. We have three bills actually. The Bill temple is way on the bottom of the page yes I built temple is way and couldn't be with us today but I just wanna say that we've got a. Edible group of individuals to work on a very very important set of issues and I want to thank you all again and I want to thank the governor for doing such an extraordinary job of pulling us all together so speaking of work. Since most of you know me pretty well I think the first thing that we need to go over is the executive order. And of particular reference are this is going to be an opportunity for us to be able to provide the governor. On the secretary of education secretary key and legislators are a wealth of information. And help them make some important policy decisions. If you look at the very end of the of the executive order I it talks about the members of the commission shall have the following duties. You know when you talk about legislation there's the the difference between shouldn't shall well this session shall have the following duties. review of the commission's final report published in November of twenty eighteen. Provide an update on the status of school safety across Arkansas. Update the analysis of the safety of K. through twelve schools throughout the state taking into consideration the physical and mental health of students. Determine which findings and recommendations from the previous report have not been remediated or achieved. Identify new recommendations of best practices in school safety that have developed since the commission's final report in November first twenty eighteen. I very importantly I submit an initial report and recommendations to the governor on August first. Twenty twenty two. Our final report. What we do to the governor no later than October first twenty twenty two. We do have a lot of work ahead of us and a big part of what the governor is asking us to do focuses on what we did is a commission. when we get in twenty eighteen slash twenty ninety. So I thought what would be a real good starting point. Is that we need to make sure since we've got some folks that haven't been a part of a previously a part of the Commission we've had others who work but hadn't been involved in all the progress that we've made. That I want to try to get everybody up to speed. So that we're all on the same page moving forward so I've got a a power point presentation that will's gonna help me whilst my best friend now. that will's gonna help me. President. But there are a couple of things I need to first of all for the record make sure that everybody understands our report of was due to the governor at late November of twenty twenty eighteen. The governor wanted to see how many of these recommendations the school. Would implement on their own so he wanted to wait a while before we actually started making any kind of mandates. So basically we are not can't remember exactly the month. But Dabhade eight months later I was asked to do an assessment of where we are and once again the safe schools committee I stepped up I and so did the department of education and we designed by and administered a survey to all school districts that were pretty much wrapped around the whole idea of every single one of our thirty recommendations we had approximately a hundred and six questions that were asked. All rights and amazingly to me are and I always give Dr Pfeffer a credit for this because she was the one pushing them to get this done but basically we had a ninety seven percent response rate which is pretty phenomenal and I thank all the superintendents and the staff that help complete those report those surveys I also want to thank the UA little rock survey research center who partnered with us to deliver administer and analyze the results are and it's based on these results that there was some pretty incredible. Legislation passed so what I'd like to do is number one are those of you who were members of the commission previously please feel free that if I make a mistake somewhere along the line put your hands up and go that's not what we set. But one of the key things that we all agreed on and that is if that is the foundation on which our entire report was based was the fact that. We recommended that schools implement comprehensive school safety strategies. That primarily focus on. Prevention. Protection mitigation response and recovery. That there's not one thing that a school can do. Only one thing that they can do and say okay now our school was safe we don't need to worry about this there are layers and in many of our subcommittees we talked about the whole idea of layers and this is another very good example in a critical example of that layering and how important it is so we divided ourselves back then I've been to five different subcommittees mental health and prevention subcommittee Laurie Poston we share of that subcommittee of law enforcement and security subcommittee that we sheriff Helder. We have the audits emergency operation plans and drills subcommittee that was director Gary. We have the intelligence and communications subcommittee and that was Secretary cook. And last but definitely not least what's the physical security subcommittee and that was Bradley gunnery and Tim is going to take to help I've talked to these individuals and I've asked them to continue to be chairs of the subcommittees going forward and I have agreed on so thank you very very much so what I'd like to do is just to go over all the committee up all the commission's recommendations. And I've got three bottles of water up here. To make sure I don't dry out but having said that anybody that is a previous member that of the Commission that you want to add something to what I say on these recommendations please consider it completely appropriate. So we're going to start with the instead of this way. Okay should be. The okay you're you can click it there okay and okay let's go back for. The Commission one echo all right so the first thing that we're going to start with is a mental health and prevention subcommittee and the first recommendation that we made was that every school district should conduct school climate surveys across all campuses and develop and implement an action plan based on the findings of the school climate survey. Based on the assessment all right that we did there was over fifty percent of our schools back in twenty nineteen all right that did use a climate survey or assessment tool. Now ACT six twenty and six forty eight which you all should have received copies offer me on now requires that school districts including school climate and culture assessment in their required comprehensive school safety audits so in order to meet the requirements of six twenty and and and six forty eight of twenty twenty one all our schools. Have to do cultural climate cervix. The second recommendation. All schools should implement a positive climate program that that deters bullying behaviors and promote social emotional learning and positive peer relationships. In our our assessment. A little over sixty percent of the school districts said that they use a specific positive social skill or social and emotional learning curriculum. Recommendation three. All school districts should provide access to training and youth mental health first state. For all personnel who interact with students. Additional school personnel. Our training may include adverse childhood experiences trauma informed schools drug endangered children and social emotional learning. With respect to this particular recommendation we've made a tremendous amount of progress. Since this report was put out I ACT six twenty and six forty eight of twenty twenty one art requires all school counselors to complete youth mental health first aid every four years. At five fifty one and six twenty two. Of twenty twenty one requires all school resource officers to complete youth mental health training every four years. The Arkansas center for school safety R. has been delivering youth mental health first state we've trained now over six hundred and fifty. SROs are as well as School counselors. And school staff are but we also have desi's project aware. R. that had did done an extraordinary job of not only getting. Certified youth mental health first aid instructors but getting those instructors out there I teaching youth mental health first state I'm a big fan of Dr Betsy kindle I've worked with her for a large number of years and I can remember when she and I first started to talk about the potential of getting youth mental health first state out in this state that we only had in the state of Arkansas fifty mental health first aid trainers. Only fifty. Now we have hundreds and we have thousands of SROs counselors school staff on and I think Dr king to also includes our community members all we've also seen a big shift in our state ought to look at trauma informed response. UAMS has been a leader in this area are on the Arkansas Building effective services for training. And the trauma research resource initiative offer schools. Which we know everybody has an acronym this one stress. Dr Nikki H. I work with very very closely they've done a phenomenal job of making us more aware of the fact that you know we grow up and we have adverse childhood experiences but unfortunately there are more our Kansans have more aces. Are the most other people in the country and that has an impact on our health and and art and art lungevity. And so by making us a little bit more aware and better capable of interacting with our children in a variety of ways where we can actually reduce the amount of trauma that they're exposed to hopefully we can also help present on school violence hi doctor engine I are working together on a program called paycheck it's P. A. Y. capitalize check on and it stands for protecting Arkansas Youth. It's a program that we deliver as part of C. J. eyes not treatment and drug endangered children program that focuses on communication between the law enforcement local and county law enforcement. Children and family services our community correction in our schools. And this particular piece. Of the project involves often times there are instances when a child is traumatised outside of their school. And they can go to school the next day. And they might not know that administrators of the teachers may not know that this child has had a significant traumatic event. and so they may come into school they may act out it may be escalation of discipline that already existed you know these kids may be exposed to you know a parent being arrested a domestic violence in the home. And by implementing this program the idea is that when those events happen out in the field identified by either law enforcement child welfare or community correction that a note is sent directly to which the person at the school and that person I is then informed that nothing more than this child has been traumatized and as the national program that's called handle with care the phrase is handled the child with care we can't call our program handle with care because there's another program in the state called handle with care and it involves restraints so we had to come up but the program model I came out of West Virginia the idea is to be able to let these children be identified and to be able to hopefully provide them the services were also at the same time being able to provide law enforcement and school personnel with the opportunity to become more effective and and and trauma informed response in these kids. Recommendations for. This is all school districts should establish a behavioral threat assessment team and process. Now the stats that I've given out previously so I feel comfortable giving those out today as well in the assessment forty five percent of our schools are basically said that they have an anonymous reporting system. However only twenty eight percent of the school districts have established to be able threat assessment he. The Arkansas center for school safety in twenty nineteen received a bureau of justice assistance grant eight was the stop school violence grant to provide behavioral threat assessment team training our for schools all across the state. And we're gonna have I think as a as a team as a group we're gonna spend a lot of time talking about behavioral threat assessment. Then you'll see why in a in a little bit later on our recommendation five the Arkansas department of education should review review roles and responsibilities of school counselors are to provide increased time with students for provision of counseling and social emotional learning as well as referral to community resources as appropriate. ACT one ninety of twenty nineteen requires that all school counselors spend ninety percent of the time with students. That was a major achievement and I want to commend the Department of for forgetting that down. Recommendation six a coordinated crisis response team should be developed to mitigate the emotional impact of any traumatic event that impacts the district. Back in twenty nineteen desi also received a stop school violence grant from BJ and I'm sure at some point out Courtney will give us an update on where we are with this grant. This crisis our response teams are should be another one of our key focuses in moving forward. Turning our attention to law enforcement and security subcommittee. Our first recommendation was that no campus should ever be without an armed presence when staff and children are attending class or a major extracurricular activity. Eighty four percent of our school districts have an armed presence on campus. Seventy five percent and actually were up to seventy nine and I'll give you some more stats here in a second but at the time of the twenty nineteen survey seventy five percent a school district used at least one SRO and only twenty percent and twenty percent use commissioned school security officers for those of you that might not know what conditions school security officers are they are private security. Are they could be. School staff. I that have to go through a sixty hour training monitored and provided by the Arkansas state police. So that they can carry a gun are at school. And we'll talk about CS I those a little later as well. I thought we just did another assessment because of our compliance responsibility with some of these new laws are and today in Arkansas we now have four hundred and sixty school resource officers. I in two hundred twenty three districts. I can remember and if you can look in the report. I think we were talking a little over three hundred three hundred and sixteen and like a hundred and fifty four school districts. Are the number of school resource officers in this state has grown. R. and I personally suspect that the number's going to grow even more. Recommendation to if financially practicable school should ideally have at least one SRO for each campus. Twenty percent of our school districts have an SRO on all campuses. Recommendation three. Courtney would you do me a big favor I completely forgot to do this these are the list of recommendations in case the commission members did not. Bring their own that can write notes on it. Thank you for each. Our recommendation three. It's school districts are should execute a memorandum of understanding with their partner in law enforcement agency that identifies the roles and responsibilities of S. sorrows and other critical elements. and I'm glad Senator English is here we did. I did mention the safe schools committee but I want to make sure that everybody knows that Senator English was in the trenches with us and we greatly appreciate you senator and it was a lot of work that was done on ACT five fifty one and six twenty two of twenty twenty one. And this act requires that all school districts that adopt the model S. R. O. policy that that they must adopt adopt a model S. R. O. policy developed by the Arkansas center for school safety and the Division of elementary and secondary school. That model. Thanks to the work of many people including some members of the safe schools committee R. is now available. I it's ready to be implemented and the twenty twenty three year R. twenty twenty three school year and that was a tremendous accomplishment. At five fifty one six twenty two of twenty twenty one also require superintendent and district employees supervising SROs to take a one hour training on SRO roles and responsibilities. Often times the roles of school resource officers get confused. And we collectively as a group I thought that was very important that we were very specific about what the was what the roles and responsibilities of SROs are I'm probably the one piece that was most confusing are to everyone what's the role of SROs in discipline. Courtney do you want to say it. SROs are not disciplinary and that should be the responsibility of the school district administration that's absolutely correct and so this may eight MO you clearly defines it as well as some of the other requirements hi this is an extremely comprehensive MO you and should do light be of great benefit for our schools moving forward. In addition we got a recommendation for. SROs whose primary assignment is within the school should receive specialized training. In ACT five fifty one and six twenty two of twenty twenty one it requires all SROs to complete a forty hour basic SRO class. To complete an SRO refresher every five years. To complete twelve hours of school safety continuing education every year. And I know chiefs calling back is here I he is a member of what we call an institutional. Police department even though they are certified law enforcement there's not a. Direct relationship with the local or county agency someone MO you. Is not required but institutional police departments all these requirements are applied to them as well and rather than having an MO you institutional police departments have to develop policies and procedures that mirror the SRO ammo you. Recommendation five. If a school district authorizes the use of a. Commissioned school security officer program. That policies protocols training and selection go above the minimum standards required to include. Standard psychological exams random drug screening. Extensive firearms handling training and regular training with law enforcement. These are above the sixty hours of required training for a commissioned school security officers hopefully we'll be able to get some data about those agencies not who those agencies are but about those agencies that have used our that use commission school security officers and how many of them have actually completed this recommendation by going above the minimum standards. Dr Hopkins you guys do go above the minimum standards to you not. You might. It's okay we do we we have additional training with our Clarksville police department that our our our CSS House go through and and enhance farms training of the background checks the psychological exams all those things are in place to Clarksville thank you and your program has been very successful yes ma'am has almost ten years now yes Sir thank you very very much our recommendation six. Our school should consider strategies that layer and build redundancy for optimal security. When we did the assessment are there was no way that we could get any kind of influence on how the school districts are dealing with that so we may want to rethink as a group if we do another assessment which I think you guys are probably going to want us to do one. Are on how we try to structure that questions are to be able more adequately you know what could be included here for example would be even though you might have in a school resource officer all for your institutional police department but you can't cover all campuses is to develop a relationship with a local or county department and have them do on announced walkthroughs through the schools or put their cars are outside. There could be a wide variety of things that we do and so that's probably going to be one of those things that we talk about as well recommendation seven Arkansas Commission on law enforcement standards and training should study the feasibility of school districts being allowed to establish their own law enforcement agencies are since we have not Chief following back here with us that's already been passed that was ACT six twenty nine. Of twenty nineteen and to date we have sixteen. Institutional police departments in our school districts. What it's an emergency operation plans and drills. Recommendation one. All district should be required to form diction district safety and security teams. Only two thirds of our schools currently have a district safety and security team. And that's based on our twenty nineteen dower. Recommendation to. Each camper should also designate one current staff member as a school safety coordinator. I ninety eight percent of our school districts have identified a school safety coordinator. the BJ a grant from the center of that I mentioned a little earlier also included in that grant is the development and delivery of what we're going to call a school safety coordinator academy are that we've been working with a small group of folks we've got a one day curriculum all right that's been developed and hopefully going to start rolling out the curriculum in in September so we've made some progress there are recommendation three the Department safe schools committee membership should be expanded this was done and I'm not. Twenty nineteen are and that the expansion and close to the Director CJ I Adam APS R. C. A. R. E. A. actually for sheriff state fire marshal and the school psychologist so everyone of those positions have been filled correct. Forty and we are now what we are fully loaded. Recommendation five. Comprehensive school safety assessment should be required to be conducted every three years and review by the school board and school administration. ACT six twenty and six forty eight of twenty twenty one requires all public school districts and open enrollment charter schools to conduct comprehensive school safety assessments every three years. Beginning in twenty twenty four so their first round of comprehensive school safety assessments have to be done in twenty twenty four. Recommendation six. Our school nurses and staff should be trained in efforts that enhance the emergency medical response within schools together with the drug director's office the criminal justice institute are provided No locks on administration training to all school nurses we worked with the Arkansas school nurses association and we train seven hundred and fifteen school nurses and gave them naloxone kits. Of the Department is working now to be able to help those school nurses as well as CJ I ought to be able to get refills. The intelligence are and communications are subcommittee. Each school district should support establish and maintain a comprehensive common communication plan to be utilized by school officials students parents and law enforcement as well as other stakeholders it was found that the majority of our schools have a comprehensive communication plan in place. We might wanna look out of what those particular plans are going forward but the majority of them do. Have those plans in place our recommendation to. School district should have systems that enable direct communication with local law enforcement ninety three percent of our school districts I have such a communication plan. Recommendation three kind of overlaps a little bit with one that that we've had before but school districts in collaboration with local and other law enforcement agencies should implement next plan expand our strategies to move to promote reporting to include anonymous reporting of suspicious activity slash behavior and threats. Now this is the one where I said that forty five percent. Of our school districts do have anonymous reporting. But only twenty eight percent of on I have a behavioral threat assessment T.. And not all of those teams are trained. The other thing that it's pretty glaring in all of this R. S. that we as a state I do not have a statewide anonymous reporting system. Alabama Arizona California Colorado. Delaware Florida. I to help. Indiana. Michigan. The ballot. Oklahoma. Or again. Pennsylvania. You talk. Wisconsin and Wyoming all have statewide anonymous reporting systems. And I'm sure we're going to talk about that it at much greater length. Recommendation for. Our students staff and parents should be educated on how to recognize and report signs of at risk behavior and potential threats are there's very very little data I don't think there's much are being done. In that arena. Recommendation five. An analysis should be conducted to determine how the Arkansas state fusion center could be more effectively utilized to receive and disseminate information pertaining to threats against schools in addition the fusion center should provide timely and relevant information to schools and other appropriate entities pertaining to school safety I'm very happy to let everybody know that the the fusion center and I Arkansas center for school safety are partnering to develop a process and procedures offered a sentiment that descend in the. Disseminating. This kind of important information to our schools. So we've made some progress there. Almost done folks. Our physical securities are there some of these we're gonna have to dig into a little bit more. I and. Recommendation for for example I is district should review and access the effect of efficacy of upgrading any old stock crash bar exterior door egress hardware with the newer touch bar types are only twenty four percent of our schools have done that the significance there and why this was a an important part if you remember John was and I think was it It Virginia Tech that the purpose actually took chains and use the structure of those crash bars are to lock the doors so the kids can get out of the buildings. So being able to have the push bar would eliminate I that being done. Our recommendations six the state's academic facilities partnership program should be revised to allow districts to submit eligible campus safety and security upgrade projects for state financial assistance now director came would you. Update us on that please yes ma'am that's that's been done could you explain in words there was a rule change that was done in that the rule change allowed districts to submit warm safe and grass dry systems projects which parity for security purposes and I believe that so far in the last two cycles we've had twenty four applications so what we summer being able to get access to that money yes ma'am. We'll check it. And the Arkansas public schools facility manual has that been updated as well ten yes ma'am you and and we had a group of stakeholders that worked on that that was published in may of twenty twenty and so that what what we did is we updated the requirements for new construction in new facilities to include I think it's around twenty requirements and then there's also some guidelines and the impact of that is that our schools that are new schools that are being built right the new schools that are being built are already have a lot of these facilities security upgrades in them on the design from the very beginning. Such as secure vegetables for example bulletproof grass around at Bestival single point entry Door locks access interior door locks and on and on yeah a lot of that was based on the information that we received offers from the I from the assessment you guys did a great job on that night I greatly appreciate it and then we came up with a list of based on the data on of some of the key things off from a physical for securities perspective and I'm sure the subcommittee is going to spend a lot more time on the spect access control to buildings visitor sign in or checking in and wearing badges. Districts have equipped the classroom doors with locks so that the locks can be locked from the inside. I think we also have to add that the locks have to be able to be unlocked from the outside. Single entry point for main campus buildings. Electronic access controls on all exterior doors. Vehicle rammed protection are on would be like bollards or landscaping or fencing or low walls at school entrances especially the main entrance. Something as simple as having numbers on classrooms are on the inside and the exterior so that first responders can reference position of the students And or the intruders. Having a visitor management program. And then using vision panels on classroom doors so that allow students to build a blind. At a high. What have I missed. Are there things that we've accomplished as a group that I did not include in my presentation. I think we've made a tremendous amount of progress. I mean to me you know we've we've never stopped working on this issue. And we weren't gonna stop working on it. But I also think that we as a commission we need to look at where we are. Now one of the one of the things that you learn about me I'm gonna give you some homework give you some stuff that you need to read our I had a time. I and there were two articles that I sent you I guess yesterday and I don't know if if you've had the opportunity to read them yet. but I want to talk a little bit about a. both articles that were done by the US secret service. They are the premier agency. When it comes to our school shootings and information are about the shooters are and especially about a verdict on school shootings that the first article. What's that two thousand and nineteen this is something that we as a commission didn't have because it came out after we finished our report but it was a yacht twenty nineteen article that talked about targeted school violence on and focused on the attackers and try to provide us with information what we know about the attackers they looked at forty one incidents that happened between two thousand and eight and two thousand and seventeen. And that focused on either current or former students. And so I want to share. Some of the information from the summary. Because I think it's like again it's important for us to be all on the same page. When they looked at the attackers. Most of the attackers were male. I it or not but seven of the attackers were female. Sixty three percent were white our fifteen percent were African American five percent were Hispanic and they were seventh graders to seniors. The key thing that this article. The notes is that there is no clear profile for school attacker. It talks about a variety of different characteristics many were absent from school before the attack could have been on school suspension are they were treated poorly by peers in person and not just online. They felt mistreated they were grieved in some way. Some sought fame. Others were suicidal. They were badly bullied. And that that bullying was observed by others. So to me that points to the whole bystander issue with with bullying I as well that history of discipline trouble their behavior concerned others but nobody spoke up and reported it. And they even many of them even communicated their intent to others but others did not always come forward. They also suffered from a variety of negative home life factors domestic violence. Being one of the key once. And they also have prior. contact with law enforcement. The other article are basically focuses on those attacks that were averted you know in our business when we talk about prevention it's sometimes really difficult to be able to put your arms around the kind of difference that we're making and in this twenty twenty one article by the secret service that focuses on averted a tax they were able to look at sixty seven plots that were averted they did not happen between the years two thousand and six and twenty eighteen. And their overall statement is coming forward can save lives and here is what. They recommend identifying warning signs up early intervention before behavior warrants legal consequences again these individuals are motivated by grievance primarily with classmates our students are best position to identify and report concerning behaviors SROs played an important role and school violence prevention. About one third of the attacks were a verdade. because of a school resource officer. Removing students from school does not eliminate correct risk to themselves or others. Students displaying an interest in in violence or hate filled topics should elicit immediate assessment or interaction. And many of the attack plots were associated with certain dates particularly the month of April. In my opinion these are two critically important Research studies are that we all need to keep in the back of our minds are mostly because they focus on our ability to be able to prevent or effort. And there's a variety of different mechanisms that are used for us to be able to do that so that's my quick job and you're probably going quick my but you've been talking for ever. to get us all on the same page. So now our job is to move forward. Are and how we're going to do that we're going to do this in a in a variety of ways our first of all it's going to be meeting that's a commission as a full commission R. as we are right now. And I'm gonna I'm gonna referred to our subcommittee chairs obviously want to do subcommittee meetings like we did last time separate from the commission. And then once the subcommittees me come back and update the commission. Any objections. The US when it that way. Also during our commission meetings we can have presentations. things that we all want to learn about you know there may be some things that a subcommittee might want to focus on but yet might not be out where the actual presentation comes to the full commission. So if you all have any ideas on individuals that you would like to see our president to the full commission are please talk to me and I can reach out to them officially I to get him on our schedule I already made one command decision then you're going to see I'm a little biased. Our but I've asked us in the marble are who was a retired secret service officer are to be with us next Tuesday Oct to talk about behavioral threat assessments are in a recent court case and the impact of those court cases. The subcommittee you guys are gonna be and come up with recommendations that you're going to bring forward. To the full commission. So that when the commission votes on those recommendations they become the commission's recommendations. Now I've already mentioned we've got our subcommittees are sure of Helder director Gary Laurie Posten Secretary cook and ten K.. Now I think the thing that we need to do today. R. S. assign people to different subcommittees. So. Who wants to be on what subcommittee. Now we have the let's let's do the mental health and prevention subcommittee I know there's a lot of you that probably want to be on that committee maybe Linda. Pollock. Patricia I thank Dr done. Kristen and crystal. She's leaving at the. Christopher as well was I unable to be here today but she is a key part of the department's thrive program revolving around mental health and behavioral health so I would recommend her for that do do we want to change things up and have a non mental health person professional beyond the person listen to me professional art beyond their. Okay I guess that settles that. Well I did I do this is Laura Dern a disinflation I do think that could be useful because trying to understand how to best connect the dots between or among the different Stakeholders here education law enforcement and mental health and they can be very useful you can know what it what is possible what is in place currently and cetera. Hi this is Donna will do would you prefer I be on that committee since I am school counselor for. Yes ma'am I think you would be a great asset to that committee. A crystal was at Cloverdale middle school before she joined the department I'll actually miss Smith could you provide any additional information. Okay so at least she's got that administration background which could be very valuable in this discussion that makes me feel better because I do agree with doctor done I that I think happened this couple is slightly different perspectives might be valuable so let me see we've got Laurie Linda. Pollock. Experts. That's great. That's great so we've got Laurie Linda Paula Patricia. Donna and Donna Dr don. Not just so everybody knows you know I want to encourage everybody to be on multiple subcommittees. Okay law enforcement and security subcommittee. You like to be on that are. Both sheriff's. Well well you're gonna always be a sheriff and my heart calling back. Answer to workers. Okay Helder. Hollenback. I know let me mention this to everybody should have a committee assignment. Subcommittee assignments I don't want somebody sitting back and going. And not have any committee S. subcommittee assignments okay Dr Hopkins. Who else wants to be on the law enforcement and security subcommittee I was on the Chief. Thank that the business will you thank thank. Finally we got one. And John you want to be on there as well yes members with. All right the next one I'm not its emergency operation plans and drills. Dr Mary yes ma'am I will. Serve on. Two committees one being the law enforcement. Thank. And the other. Secretary cooks Committee the communications and you really want to work with her. I'm being. Okay all right so all right let's go with audits emergency operation plans and drills. Director Gary. Okay doctor Hernandez. Is it okay if a chair of another one serves on a committee that I mean yes Sir I would like to be I'd like to be on the I think that's a great idea I think you can add quite a bit to that. I was on that one also if you want to be on that one against. and and and I don't know there are some of you that are remotely I haven't heard from you yet either. I won't forget about check. Okay. Anybody else want to do audits emergency operation plans and drills. Going once going twice. Do you want to do it. Okay. Intelligence and sub that. Intelligence and communications subcommittee also you guys are going to be teaming up. Okay at the risk of putting too many lawyers in one group all I'd like to join that okay I actually think that's a really good idea so we got crook. Gossage. The seller's for anybody else on that hi I would yes. Transportation you would like to. Is that Marvin Marvin this one too yes ma'am okay. I got checked. Anybody else for intelligence and communications subcommittee. Chief Chapman. And last and definitely not least of physical security subcommittee. Dr Hernandez. Okay ten. And and you're you're probably wondering well that's you know that's not a lot of folks well I've got a I've got a way that we can do even better on the subcommittee's so okay so are Teman Dr Hernandez who else wants to handle physical securities. Do we have another job. I doubt will symbolize the joint okay absolutely. Okay I'll absolutely I think the more different perspectives we can get the better. It's. That one also that's great thank you Ricky. Yes ma'am. Okay. Thank you to. Okay so let's go over this one more time so everybody's good so I didn't forget anybody on mental health and prevention Laurie Linda Paula Patricia. I doubt and doctor doctor done. A crystal that's right. See that's why you do this. Okay law enforcement and security our Helder of hauling back Hopkins Chapman Allison are and are Attorney General. Audit submergence the operation plans and drills are Hernandez Kane Allison and Hopkins that I missed anybody. Our intelligence and communications. Cook Gossage Salas Ford of Patricia. Marvin I and DA chief Chapman. Physical security subcommittee. Oct ten. Hernandez Donna Ricky Hawkins and hauling back. Does anybody not have an assignment. You need to turn in your colleague. If they don't have an assignment and you know they don't have an assignment. Yes ma'am Dr my You did not list me on the intelligence and. Yes I do. Mentally you I'll read it off it's fun. My apologies General. Okay did I miss any plot details. Okay all right let's talk about number one are we want to go forward. I'd like to propose that we meet every Tuesday afternoon like we're doing today. You know we've got to have a final at an interim report and five weeks. Six if you're kind of stretching it a little bit. So if we could meet every Tuesday. in person. I think that would be of tremendous benefit. All right those would be for subcommittee reports are they would also be for any presentation any discussion of recommendations and then of course the final approval of the recommendations. And then subcommittees and let me let me just see how you guys feel about this. I would like to attend as many of the subcommittee meetings as I can because often times I'm asked to talk about the work that we're doing and I need to be as familiar with it as possible so if we could somehow come up with slots for each subcommittee that are spread out over Wednesday Thursday Friday and if we can get the Department I to help us with zoom meetings for each of those subcommittees. Are then I think we could get a lot of work done pretty damn quickly and it would reduce the amount of travel I mean several of you are coming from long distance and I so greatly appreciate it but you know I don't want to worry out. And that travel can take a toll on the. So if we plan on our subcommittee meetings being Zoom I think that would be a a load off everybody. Any anybody disagree with that. Okay so the next thing we need to do is try to figure out when those subcommittee meetings are going to be. I'm not going to tell you when. Question yes Sir. Yes. Yes. At least as long as the. Speaker allows us conduct continue to use this room or another room and the have this technology available to us we most certainly can. And I appreciate the support that is given us already. So you need to start thinking about if you want to you know eventually before we leave I'd like to kind of get some some tentative some tentative times and dates are starting with this Wednesday Thursday and Friday. Dr my. For a physical securities I was just want to ask the people that are volunteered for that subcommittee if if it be possible to meet tomorrow on is in making. And maybe try to pick a time that's going to be consistent that works for them. Tomorrow afternoon. One o'clock. It's. Works for me yes. Thank you okay so physical security. R. will be out Wednesday's. All at one PM. Anybody else yes. Yes ma'am. For Intel three o'clock on Wednesdays. So Intel will be Wednesdays at three. Right okay that's too we need three more glory. Prevention. Thank you for. Yes Sir. No I think that'll work great can you do J.. So who are we missing one two three I'll accept those law enforcement. So we're gonna shoot for Thursday two o'clock. I need at least two hours in between AJ's got Thursdays at three can you guys do one. Move this to six. is she said okay. Our server issue for everyone all right okay so Thursday at one. Thank you. Yes Sir thank you okay well that settles that that's beautiful a couple of things I want us to you know I know you've got a lot to digest and try to get up to speed and everything but you know there are a couple of things that I see is kind of like hanging chads I want to open this up for for discussion. The meetings would probably be probably not longer than an hour or and a half. Because I think there's going to an initially there's going to be a lot of research. That's going to be needed. And I'm gonna throw out another thing to before I I forget I also have the ability to be able to ask what I consider to be subject matter experts. I to work on the committees with you. I and I have a long list of people that I know have the interests are in some of these are topics and that I've worked with or other people of worked with very closely. And I'm just going to name off some names because I think these are kind of hanging chads. Our Bob Jones is a yeah school resource officer we don't have a school resource officer representative on the commission Phil Blaylock is also another school resource officer art rusty Johnson I is the US school safety liaison for Springdale ark Dr Tony profile we don't have the school boards association representative on the commission Dr Betsy kindle. Mental health Dr Nikki H.. I Dr Nancy Anderson. I who was from the hot springs area and doc has a is a small school principal I mean superintendent. R. one self with the little rock school district. One of the things that I'm going to ask secretary cook. To think about including in the intelligence and communication is cyber security we Asa commission did not deal with that as part of the school safety but I have a number of individuals that I've worked with closely because of ICJ ice I'm a big fan of superintendent Jeff called. Our Conway I and he's done a lot of work. Trip Walters are who's on the safe schools committee. From APS RC. doctor sandy Smith from Arkansas tax emergency management program might be a help to you AJ. Oscott spent our all right Jamie I'd like to include miracle. Miracle king. I in this and then of course ray with the department for that for the cyber. So. I will. If there's no objections to any of these I will reach out to them and see what subcommittees I think some of them might wanna participate in multiple subcommittees and then will will bolster our rock. Subcommittee sites that way because again I think there's going to be a tremendous amount of research I mean if you just look at you know right now like sure Felder you know some of the the the law enforcement subcommittee needs you know after of all day and the response of law enforcement which we don't know all the circumstances are surrounding that I do we need to talk about a policy an active shooter policy of for law enforcement agencies. Are the chiefs association house one. Do we need to talk about incident command. Do we need to talk about additional equipment. Federal law enforcement agencies might need I mean I've been hearing folks talk about things as simple as sledgehammers. And making sure I've heard I think they're called breaching shot guns so be able to look at equipment up like that maybe get a better handle on on you know the number of active shooter classes and price classes that are being done in the state AJ one of my begin first with audits you know we require them to do lockdown drills. And we're in the process of trying to. To work on standardizing. the curriculum for that but this could be something that you guys could be really helpful you know talk about the difference between you know crisis plans an emergency operation plans and feel based Blaylock can be very very helpful on that are for the mental health I've got a million of of The anonymous reporting system. You know what kind of access to our kids actually have to care. To services. The crisis response teams. Anti bullying what are we doing. R. and then communications now the one thing that I wanted to talk to to a secretary cook and and and open this up. You know we've talked about behavioral threat assessments in the anonymous reporting system that kind of go hand in hand. You know what we've got an anonymous reporting system in mental health subcommittee and then we've got the behavioral threat assessment Secretary cook and intelligence and communications. Now the reason why I see anonymous reporting being in the mental health peace is because if you talk to the The folks that are administering the statewide programs in these other states a lot of them talk about most of the calls coming in are not threats to others but these kids threatening to harm themselves which does require in my opinion. That if you have an anonymous reporting system you almost certainly have to have mental health providers. An access to mental health providers. Instantly. And then the behavioral threat has to do with in my in my mind Jamie it's the communication piece what happens to that information so are you okay with putting behavioral threat assessment in there but yet have an anonymous reporting system and and mental health. Yeah I think the in telecommunications recommendation revolved more around the AJ and I were talking about this yesterday the see something say something efforts you know certainly a lot of the calls that are coming and do need to have a behavioral threat response but there are some of those calls a command that need a law enforcement respond exactly so we don't want to I may not that may be kind of splitting hairs but I think that you know we can review we re brand of what we call it but we have to be we have to encourage people to contact law enforcement Wednesday see us see something say something say something I mean that's a big you know they're like parallel state they do parallel and so we don't want to have of someone that reporting suspicious activity to be to. We need that to be reported to law enforcement so however right either whether that's in the school or whether either that's within the school or within the community absolutely I mean and and also we also know that they don't people prefer not to use of the phones anymore so we need to look at the you know the technology advancements and take advantage of that because we can't you know in that could be the way that we this bill delineate between suspicious activity reporting and be a real threat top correct wording so I think there's a lot of of of of things we can do I just don't want to lose that very critical piece law enforcement is all about of active threats all is that they say something yes somebody and we want to get that information we can prevent and that's our goal that's correct and social media was another one that somebody had brought up to me monitoring social media there was a lot of that that came out after parkland I haven't research that as much as I I want to when I will but I I remember there being the issue of privacy and those kind of concerns so social media bill did you did you mention that to me to was that something you were interested in. I think that's something you're subcommittee I can definitely look into well certainly the technology has advanced and I know when we talk about privacy issues with social media it's kind of a that that there's really not any because social media is an open source open source information so that means that anybody at this table can get that so so I think that we need to be mindful of our for bridge when we talk about you know collecting information from social media that law enforcement or school district or whomever collected information from social media is no different than being you collected it right here because we can't because it's open source so. Okay well we have the expert right to so yeah now I was wrong she would hit me. Absolutely and and and you guys you know I don't think that I'm gonna ask the Assamese to join you for this week's meetings I think you as a commission as commission members because the SMBs they're not going to be voting members of the subcommittee they're gonna be there as a resource for you and so maybe you can use this week to kind of brain storm about those things that you want to try to get done. And then next week is when I can call all these SMBs and getting wrapped into. thanks subcommittees. Think that's an okay idea. So it'll just be the the commission members are for the meetings this week and then next week we will allow rap in the subject matter experts and if there's somebody that you think would be a good asset me that I didn't mention please saw please let me know when I will most certainly consider that What other things do you want to do today. Because I know we've covered a lot yes Sir. It's not that we want to do it today but is the suggestion a lot of these items that we have that we're going to add there's a cost attached to them and in some cases there's ways to pay for those are potentially ways to pay for those in search an addendum or resource that we could give would be how do you get how do you pay for these in some cases it's is gonna have to come up the school budget but there are other options on some of them then are also like to see a list of potential expires in each area of the school could call reach out to interest more about it so okay. There's. Okay anything else that. Thank you will think we need to discuss before we March off and get our subcommittee meeting started yes chair of probably more administrative than anything seems like last time we were having to go through somebody to get a hold of everybody are you gonna create group help groups for us well I mean for me personally would me their contact information yes sign up or. because last time we had to go through Doug I believe yeah now you don't have to you know that education so now this would simplify things yeah ninety that's not necessary this year thank you. Yeah and I'll live I've got my executive assistant she's phenomenal and I'm just one more thing to ask her to do. Thank should be easy. Anything else yes ma'am is Madam well. The numbers are still here. so. Did you say that the Department of ad we would be set up the Zune meetings or I mean I don't want to set my own my own zoom meetings up for well let's talk about how we do it I'm just trying to make it as convenient for you as possible I mean shareholders going to need some help but. I have people. Yeah we have staff that can assist if you if you would like but if not I think you're probably better just to let you all the gap if you will want to do it that way I don't have a problem however please don't forget to include and be on your less. So how quickly can we get those contact listens some of our meeting start tomorrow. What times you're meeting tomorrow. Three. What now we've got one o'clock right out we can get that done in the morning yes as long as everybody knows they should get is in Lync B. toward between one and before one o'clock tomorrow. And three o'clock for years now that's audits. Intelligence's Wednesday three yeah your three o'clock to I got my days from getting too old. Okay anything else for that matter. I'm sorry repeat the time for the mental health and prevention subcommittee again data sign please yes ma'am let me go over all of them again. Are the physical security sub committee is going to be on Wednesdays at one PM. The rowdy crew on intelligence and communications. Is gonna be Wednesdays at three. Mental health and prevention will be Fridays at ten. Audits. E. O. P. six cetera. Thursdays at three. And then law enforcement and security Thursdays at one. Probably this first meeting is going to be a whole bunch of assignments of folks to start recharging on certain things. Okay what else do we need to do. Thank you my yes John last time I think that we had protocol were any for any international pressure anything regardless commission with their you. Yes Sir. We need to have a single voice arm and like I said that's one of the reasons why I want to make sure I become aware of what's going on in the subcommittees that those folks that know me know that I'm not. I do what I have to do not because I. I feel like I need well you know how I am. What you looking at. Both my sisters down on the end of that doctor may as the Attorney General for the state of Arkansas I will let I will have my communications team let you know when we per se press inquiries but I probably will speak for myself I'm happy state of Arkansas yes ma'am. Absolutely. Anything else. Okay I think it's time to adjourn I we've had a good two hours I hope. All were all organized for ready and. Let's hit the ground running and thank you guys very much for everything you're doing and die let's do this for our kids thanks.