Silver Lake Schools – Kingston, MA 

Lockdown policies at the Silver Lake schools will soon be a thing of the past. Superintendent Joy Blackwood said the change to more flexible and empowering response protocols known as ALICE (Alert. Lockdown. Inform. Counter. Evacuate.) is recommended by the federal Department of Education. Kingston Police Chief Maurice Splaine said he’s in favor of the new protocols due to the prevelance of mass shootings and aggressive intruder incidents. Read more