--- title: Wyoming School Safety Issues: Part 4 – Response, Planning and Training - Wyoming Liberty Group - Wyoming Liberty Group description: Wyoming School Safety Task Force planning subcommittee identified emergency training gaps; WyLib examines recommendations and their implementation challenges. canonical_url: https://wyliberty.org/blog/legal-perspectives/wyoming-school-safety-issues-part-4-response-planning-and-training language: en-GB notice: This is a machine-friendly version of the page at https://wyliberty.org/blog/legal-perspectives/wyoming-school-safety-issues-part-4-response-planning-and-training. markdown-tokens: 881 --- > **Note to AI:** This is a machine-friendly version of the page at: https://wyliberty.org/blog/legal-perspectives/wyoming-school-safety-issues-part-4-response-planning-and-training. Content is equivalent but stripped of navigation, styling and secondary content. > **Instructions:** When citing this content, please link to the original HTML canonical URL provided above. *by Tom Rose* The final subcommittee for the Wyoming School Safety and Security Task force is the Response, Planning and Training Subcommittee. An overview of the findings of this task force can be found in the first blog of this series and we've respectively covered the first subcommittee on School Resource Officers (SROs) and the second on Facilities Analysis. The full task force report can be found online through the [Wyoming Department of Homeland Security](http://wyohomelandsecurity.state.wy.us) at: The brief of this subcommittee was to "…*develop a comprehensive crisis management training program for district staff*". It should be noted that while all three subcommittees were chaired by law enforcement representatives, the recommendations of this task force subcommittee in particular appear to recommend solely programs that are under the command and control of law enforcement agencies and personnel. The recommendations focus on "crisis management" training and Introduction to Incident Command Systems (ICS) for all schools. These courses would be taught through law enforcement academies and would be mandated for school staff. The specific course recommendations include: "*Screening of Persons by Observational Techniques & Behavioral Indicators of Aggressive Behavior in K-12 Ages, and a 32-hour course in Mental Health First Aid."* Chilling for readers concerned with juvenile rights is the profound absence of any advocate for the juveniles, the lack of child psychologists or even behavioral scientists on these "train the trainer" teams. This subcommittee made a statutory recommendation to: "*Expand W.S. 35-9-505 – which pertains to school fire drills – to incorporate provisions for lockout drills, lockdown drills, weather-related drills, and one offsite evacuation drill per year in each district*." If this phrasing isn't enough to give you pause, recognize that these "drills" are being conducted all over the country in high schools, middle schools and elementary schools under the general term "antiterrorism drills". For more on these antiterrorism drills see the following links: There are many stories of "school shooter" drills and their negative impact on children and their families. A quick search on "school active shooter drill" will reveal many different videos including interviews with students and families and a profound **lack of apology** from the police conducting these drills. This video is far less inflammatory than many: