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1 Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School Public Safety Commission Meeting 2 3 Bb&T Center 4 Chairman's Club 5 1 Panther Parkwa Page 1 1 MARJORY STONEMAN DOUGLAS HIGH SCHOOL PUBLIC SAFETY COMMISSION MEETING 2 3 BB&T CENTER 4 CHAIRMAN'S CLUB 5 1 PANTHER PARKWAY 6 SUNRISE, FLORIDA 33323 7 8 April 9, 2019 9 8:00 A.M. - 6:30 P.M. 10 11 APPEARANCES: 12 COMMISSION MEMBERS/ATTENDEES: SHERIFF BOB GUALTIERI - CHAIR 13 JASON JONES - PSC GENERAL COUNSEL CHRIS NELSON - CHIEF OF POLICE, CITY OF AUBURNDALE 14 BRUCE BARTLETT - CHIEF ASSISTANT STATE ATTORNEY, SIXTH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT 15 RICHARD SWEARINGEN - COMMISSIONER FLORIDA DEPARTMENT OF LAW ENFORCEMENT 16 MAX SCHACHTER - VICTIM PARENT LARRY ASHLEY - SHERIFF, OKALOOSA COUNTY 17 MELISSA LARKIN SKINNER - CEO, CENTERSTONE OF FLORIDA MARY MAYHEW - SECRETARY AHCA 18 CHAD POPPELL - SECRETARY DCF (ABSENT) DAVID MICA - DCF CHIEF OF STAFF 19 SOMONE MARSTILLER - SECRETARY DJJ JACOB OLIVIA - EVC OF K-12 PUBLIC SCHOOLS 20 MIKE CARROLL - FORMER SECRETARY DCF JAMES HARPRING - UNDERSHERIFF/GC, INDIAN RIVER 21 COUNTY PAM STEWART - COMMISSIONER OF EDUCATION 22 GRADY JUDD - SHERIFF, POLK COUNTY DOUGLAS DODD - SCHOOL BOARD MEMBER, CITRUS COUNTY 23 (ABSENT) LAUREN BOOK - SENATOR, DISTRICT 32 (ABSENT) 24 RYAN PETTY - VICTIM PARENT MARSHA POWERS - SCHOOL BOARD MEMBER, MARTIN COUNTY 25 KEVIN LYSTAD - PRESIDENT, FLORIDA POLICE CHIEF ASSOC CHRISTINA LINTON - COMMISSION STAFF, FDLE Veritext Legal Solutions 800-726-7007 305-376-8800 Page 2 1 (Thereupon, the meeting is called to order) 2 CHAIR: All right, why don't we go ahead 3 and get started. We'll all the meeting to 4 order, and welcome everybody back to the 2019 5 Marjorie Stoneman Douglas Public Safety 6 Commission meetings. As we begin, as we always 7 do, why don't we rise for the pledge and a 8 moment of silence for the victims. 9 (Thereupon, a moment of silence is had.) 10 (Thereupon, the Pledge of Allegiance is recited.) 11 CHAIR: Everyone received a copy of the 12 minutes from our January 2nd telephonic 13 meeting. Hopefully you've had a chance to 14 review it. Do we have a motion to approve 15 those minutes? 16 UNDERSHERIFF HARPRING: Motion. 17 CHAIR: Motion by Commissioner Harpring. 18 Do we have a second? 19 CHIEF NELSON: Second. 20 CHAIR: Second by Commissioner Nelson. 21 All in favor aye. 22 (Aye) 23 CHAIR: Any opposed say. Okay, said 24 motion passes, and those minutes are approved. 25 I'm going to just briefly turn it over to our Veritext Legal Solutions 800-726-7007 305-376-8800 Page 3 1 general counsel Jason Jones for just a reminder 2 on Sunshine Law obligations. Jason. 3 COMM. JONES: Good morning, everyone. 4 This is just your annual reminder, I guess your 5 meeting reminder that this is a meeting that is 6 governed by the Sunshine Law, which means that 7 all conversations that you have about business 8 that will appear before the Commission needs to 9 happen in the open portion of the meeting. No 10 side conversations, no conversations at lunch, 11 or over text or anything, about what we're 12 going to discuss here at the meeting. We will 13 not be discussing anything in closed session 14 this meeting, but just a reminder that anything 15 that you do here, or receive, that is of a 16 confidential or exempt nature, you need to keep 17 that in a confidential status per the statute. 18 So if you have any questions regarding any 19 of that please get with me at a break. And for 20 our new members, if you do not fill out a 21 financial disclosure form as part of your 22 position please get with me, I will need to 23 give you one to fill out for the purposes of 24 this Commission. Thank you. 25 CHAIR: All right, thanks, Jason. As you Veritext Legal Solutions 800-726-7007 305-376-8800 Page 4 1 can see Senator Book is not with us. The 2 Legislature is in session so she will not be 3 able to join us for this meeting. I know 4 she'll be here again for our June meeting, but 5 that's the reason why Senator Book is not here. 6 I just want to welcome new members to the 7 Commission. We have DCF Secretary Simone 8 Marstiller, AHCA Secretary Mary Mayhew, another 9 ex-official member of the Commission is the 10 Department of Education Secretary, and that of 11 course is Commissioner Richard Corcoran, but 12 Jacob Olivia, the Chancellor of K-12 is going 13 to be representing Commissioner Corcoran. DCF 14 Secretary Chad Poppell's confirmation hearing 15 is this morning so he will not be with us 16 today, but David Mica is here from DCF, and 17 Secretary Poppell with be with us tomorrow. 18 And to all the new members, we appreciate 19 you joining us. Anything that we can do to, 20 you know, facilitate your knowledge base, and 21 help you get up to speed, we're all here for 22 you. The FDLE staff will provide you with 23 whatever you need, but we certainly appreciate 24 your participation, and the subject matter 25 expertise that you bring to the table to help Veritext Legal Solutions 800-726-7007 305-376-8800 Page 5 1 us as we continue with this work. 2 Since we submitted the initial report to 3 the legislature, we have made presentations to 4 the House and the Senate education committees. 5 We have spoken with the Senate President, and 6 with the Speaker of the House, and both the 7 President and the Speaker were very receptive 8 to many of the Commission's recommendations, 9 and very encouraging about the Commission's 10 work. We're going to provide you with some 11 details later today on the Bills that are 12 pending, and during this current legislative 13 session, as well as Governor DeSantis' 14 executive order that he entered on February 15 13th. 16 Over the last couple of months I've met 17 with, you know, Broward County Sheriff Gregory 18 Tony, and Sheriff Tony has already fulfilled is 19 commitment to transparency and cooperation in 20 the work of this Commission. Our investigators 21 have over the last month or so interviewed well 22 over fifty deputies at the Broward County 23 Sheriff's Office to clarify their active 24 assailant training pre and post February 2018, 25 and met with many other BSO personnel. Veritext Legal Solutions 800-726-7007 305-376-8800 Page 6 1 During the last couple of months I've met 2 with and had an opportunity to present to the 3 Florida Association of School Superintendents, 4 including a presentation at their February 5 School Safety Conference in Orlando. I can 6 tell you that the dialogue with the 7 superintendents is good. While there's room to 8 do more, and to do it better across Florida, I 9 believe that we've made great progress toward 10 enhancing school safety through these meetings, 11 and through the collaboration with the 12 superintendents. 13 One thing I can tell you for sure is that 14 the superintendents want the same thing that we 15 want, and that is the safest schools possible, 16 even if there may be some different lanes that 17 we're in to get to the end zone. But I can 18 tell you that they want safe schools, we want 19 safe schools, and as long as we have open lines 20 of communication, I'm confident we can get 21 everything and everybody to the place that we 22 all need to be. 23 And based on the feedback I can tell you 24 that many of the superintendents that have been 25 at the meetings, or attended the training, have Veritext Legal Solutions 800-726-7007 305-376-8800 Page 7 1 come up to me afterward and said that the 2 Commission's work, your work has informed their 3 views, and in some cases had changed their 4 views, and the facts matter, and that as they 5 learn the facts, and learn what happened here 6 and in other places, it's helping them to make 7 decisions, make better decisions, and in some 8 cases changing the way that they do business, 9 so all that is very positive. 10 At the request of the Broward County 11 School Board I met with them in a public 12 meeting, made a presentation to them. All of 13 you were notified of that in case you had an 14 opportunity or a desire to watch it live, and 15 it was a good several hour presentation and 16 discussion with the Broward County School 17 Board. Well, it took a year, but the week 18 before that presentation the Broward County 19 School Board passed an active assailant 20 response policy, and a safe spaces, or hard 21 corner policy. So that was passed back in 22 February, and while it did take a year at least 23 that it's in place. 24 And we had that discussion -- I had that 25 discussion with them about how long it takes Veritext Legal Solutions 800-726-7007 305-376-8800 Page 8 1 for them to get some things done, and that, you 2 know, a year to get that implemented in my 3 view, and I think most of your views from our 4 discussions here, is too long, but at least 5 that it is finally in place.
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