From FoxNews.com…
Andrew Pollack, whose daughter Meadow Pollack was killed in the Parkland school shooting in 2018, says several positive changes were made as a result of a commission launched by Florida Republicans to investigate policy failures stemming from the tragedy.
Pollack encouraged Texas Gov. Greg Abbott to see through a similar commission in response to the recent school shooting in Uvalde, Texas.
Pollack, Chief Public Safety Officer of Byrna Technologies, told Fox News Digital Texas should imitate the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School Public Safety Commission developed in response to the Parkland shooting that killed Pollack’s daughter and 16 others.
“On that commission was the head of the Florida Department of Law Enforcement, experts in security, lawyers, parents, police, sheriffs. And what they did, Rick Scott did, was put this commission together where they dissected everything leading up to this shooting,” Pollack explained.
“They went into the shooter’s background, what happened in his life, what mental facilities that he went to, the counseling, social media, they dissect everything. You can’t just look into the response that day.”
Pollack says he has reached out to Gov. Abbott’s office and offered to help organize a commission to address ways to prevent school shootings going forward.
The Parkland shooting commission provided an extensive list of recommendations in order to help prevent future shootings, including policies mandating “personnel to report all indicators of suspicious student behavior to an administrator,” making it clear that responding officers are expected to neutralize rather than “contain” an active shooter and ways of “hardening” school targets such as a “single point of entry containment system.”
Pollack says that changes should have been made after a 2018 shooting in Santa Fe, Texas, left eight students and two teachers dead and suggested Uvalde school district officials “never had read” the Parkland report.
