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Little Tracking, Wide Variability Permeate the Teams Tasked With Stopping School Shootings - KFF Health News

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Threat assessment teams are groups of law enforcement, school officials and school officials who try to identify potentially dangerous or distressed kids, intervene, and prevent the next school shooting.

Florida is one of about 18 states that require schools to have threat assessment teams; a national survey estimates 85% of public schools have a team assigned to the task.

Some of the teams have developed systemic problems that put them at risk of unfairly labeling and vilifying children.

Many school districts are developing their own models in the absence of national standards.

Advocacy groups contend that threat assessment teams have perpetuated inequities.

Some districts report keeping their teams a secret from parents, which is not how they were designed to operate.

Florida revamped its threat assessment system in January 2024 to improve response times.

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