Psychologist Talks Threat Assessment at Stow Safety Task Force

Dr. Alfred Grzegorek spoke at the community safety task force's second meeting Thursday

Preventing school violence via threat assessment teams was the focus of the Stow Safety Task Force Thursday during the group's second meeting. The task force invited Stow psychologist Dr. Alfred Grzegorek to talk about threat assessment programs, which are designed to watch out for potentially violent individuals and stop them from taking deadly action. "The entire idea of threat assessment and threat management is to not hurt but to always attempt to help, to protect," he said. "If the critical information needed to tell a threat assessment team of a threat comes fast enough, they can possibly have an intervention with the individual thinking of creating violence and start mental health treatment or some other intervention." Grzegorek, …

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Officers Allowed to Carry Concealed Weapons During After-School Events

The Stow-Munroe Falls school board passed a resolution allowing guns in the buildings Monday night.

Stow and Munroe Falls have taken another step to make schools safer, even after the day is over. On Monday night, the Stow-Munroe Falls school board passed a resolution that allows active and retired police officers from the Stow and Munroe Falls police departments to carry concealed weapons on school grounds during after-hour events, reports the Akron Beacon Journal. "Allowing off duty officers to carry their weapons to events at our schools provides an additional layer of protection in case a crisis should occur,” Superintendent Russ Jones told the Beacon. Both cities and the school district have made safety a top priority after the shooting in Newtown, CT, in December. Stow Mayor Sara Drew appointed 10 people to a task force that will …

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Safety Task Force: Security in Schools is a Complex Issue

The task force held its first meeting Thursday.