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In the News

• Texas Schools Received 77,000 Threats Last Year. Some Schools Lack the Resources to Respond, CBS Texas, September 2023

• Do Protocols for School Safety Infringe Upon Disability Rights?, Hechinger Report, 2022

• Threat Assessment Systems as a School Safety Strategy, New America, 2021

• How Should Schools Respond to Threats of Violence?, Philadelphia Inquirer, 2021

• Threat Assessments: Preventing School Violence or Creating Student Trauma?, k12dive, , 2021

• The Risks of Threat Assessment to Students Are Dire, Youth Today, 2020

• A 6-year-old Pointed a Finger Gun at Her Teacher and Said ‘I shoot you.’ Her School Called the Cops, The Philadelphia Inquirer, February 11, 2020

• Here’s How ‘Threat Assessments’ May Be Targeting Vulnerable Students, Education Post, 2019

• School Shootings Could Be Prevented If We Intervened in Cases of Troubled Students, NBC News, 2019

• Who's the Threat? Hundreds of Special Ed Students ID’d as Potential Threats, Searchlight New Mexico, 2019

• Columbine's Legacy: Experts Say Schools Must Focus More on Solutions, Less on Security, Green Bay Press Gazette, 2019

• Do the Harder Work - Create Cultures of Connectedness in Schools, Communities for Just Schools Fund, 2018

• The False Comfort of Securing Schools, New York Times, 2018

• More Schools Are Using Anonymous Tip Lines to Thwart Violence. Do They Work?, Education Week, 2018

• Controversial Discipline Program Not to Blame for Parkland School Shooting, Commission Finds, Education Week, 2018

• Targeted: A Family and the Quest to Stop the Next School Shooter, The Oregonian, 2018

• Wave Of ‘Red Flag’ Gun Laws Shows Power Of The Parkland Effect, Huffington Post, 2018

• The Futility of Trying to Prevent More School Shootings in America , The Atlantic, 2018

• Thwarted School Shooting Plans Don't Get Much Attention. Here's How That Affects School Safety Debates, Education Week, 2018

• How Schools Should Respond to a Student’s Threats, Education Week, January 9, 2018

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Reports

• Behavioral Threat Assessment in Schools: Evidence, Fit, and Appropriateness, Mental Health Technology Transfer Center Network, October 2023

• School Safety and Threat Assessments: Assessing the Student Beyond the Threat, Texas Appleseed, 2023

• The Problems with Threat Assessments in Schools, National Disability Rights Network, 2022

• Comprehensive School Threat Assessment Guidelines (gateway to resources and research), The University of Virginia

• States' Roles in Keeping Schools Safe: Opportunities and Challenges for State School Safety Centers and Other Actors, National Institute of Justice, 2017