ALICE Training News

Washington County School District- St. George, UT If a situation involving an active shooter takes place in the Washington County School District, school officials should be prepared. The Washington County School board met for its regularly scheduled meeting on Jan. 19 and heard about the ALICE training program.Superintendent Robin Cochran, along with all four Washington [...]

Roanoke-Benson School District- Roanoke, IL Lockdown drills will soon be part of the School Safety Plan in Illinois schools.Roanoke-Benson Superintendent Rohn Peterson told the District 60 school board on Thursday that staff and students will be trained this fall about how to deal with a school shooting crisis.“Fire, tornado and earthquake drills—we have those down,” [...]

Wetzel County Sherriff's Department- New Martinsville, WV Deputy Donald Bordenkircher, PRO at Valley High School, also conducted an ALICE Training last year. "That completed the staff training at all the schools," Koontz stated. "All teachers have been trained, so they can understand it and will be able to help the children if something occurs." Read [...]

Royall Middle School- Elroy, WI Middle/High School Principal Scott Uppena also said that district staff went through A.L.I.C.E. (Alert, Lockdown, Inform, Counter, Evacuate) training on Friday. The training prepares staff members for an active shooter situation. “We took them through some real scenarios that they might be faced with and we got some good questions [...]

Swampscott Middle School- Swampscott, MA Swampscott Middle School Principal Robert MurphyMurphy said another goal is working on the ALICE implementation, which stands for Alert-Lockdown-Inform-Counter-Evacuate, and is being taught to school districts as a way to deal with an active shooter situation. Read more

Garden City Community College- Garden City, KS Garden City Community College, the Garden City Police Department and the ALICE (Alert, Lockdown, Inform, Counter and Evacuate) Training Institute are bringing ALICE instructor training to the college from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. April 13-14 in the Student and Community Services Building in Garden City. Read more

El Dorado Springs Police- El Dorado Springs, MO El Dorado Springs police chief Jarrod Schiereck posed an unsettling but important question to attendees at the El Dorado Springs Chamber of Commerce luncheon Thursday, Jan. 14. “If I drew my weapon and started shooting people, how many people would run out the door?” he asked. “How [...]

Ottawa Middle School- Ottawa, KS Training is the key to being prepared for an active shooter situation in Franklin County, Jeff Richards said. Two free active shooter training sessions are scheduled for 8 a.m. to noon and 1 p.m. to 5 p.m. Jan. 30 at Ottawa Middle School, 1230 S. Ash St., Ottawa, Richards, Franklin [...]

Roxbury, NJ- Roxbury Police Chief James Simonetti said the police department wants to offer new training for schools to use in the event of active shooters. Unlike current procedures, the “ALICE” (Alert, Lockdown, Inform, Counter and Evacuate) system does not recommend hunkering down in buildings during shooting incidents, he said. “It’s a different approach to [...]

Plum School District- Plum, PA Members of the Plum School District Safe & Supportive Schools Committee hope to have all staff and students trained to respond to an emergency by the end of this school year. The committee met Jan. 13 to discuss ALICE — Alert, Lockdown, Inform, Counter and Evacuate — training. The training [...]

Hannibal Police Department- Hannibal, MO The Hannibal Police Department has started training officials at the city's schools and government agencies in an active shooter response method that builds on traditional run-and-hide tactics to increase victims' chances of survival. Rich Stilley, Hannibal School District business manager, described the ALICE method as "eye-opening," since it goes beyond [...]

San Diego City College- San Diego, CA- A new program is training police and civilians to work together to combat an active shooter on a college campus. San Diego Community College police Officer Richard Ferrel said the training aims to lower casualty rates.The San Diego Community College Police Department has been training for such a scenario [...]

Needham Schools- Needham, MA Needham is not the only town looking to implement ALICE. School districts within the state and nationwide have started reevaluating their safety protocol. I think it’s a very empowering kind of life skill," said Town Manager Kate Fitzpatrick. “With school shootings on the rise since 1993 it’s a topic we have [...]

Redford Union School District- Redford, MI The Redford Union School District, in partnership with local law enforcement, is implementing an active shooter response program. This month, trained school administrators and law enforcement officials will provide staff training that is based on current research shown to increase the survival rate during an active shooter incident. This action [...]

Madison School District- Adrian, MI On Jan. 4, social media users took note of at least one person making threats of gun and bomb violence against the Madison schools. The allegations pointed to a violent incident planned for 9 a.m. Jan. 5. The district turned immediately to elements of its “Alert, Lockdown, Inform, Counter, Evacuate” [...]

Wayland, MA- Whether you know it or not, every school in Massachusetts is preparing children for an attack. What are they telling them? And will the training save kids or just scare the hell out of them (and us)? Confirms Wayland elementary school principal Jim Lee: “It’s what they’re used to.” In the same way [...]

Bowling Green, KY- "Duck and cover," turns you into a sitting target during an active shooter scenario. As the casualties piled up, instructors with the ALICE program said enough. "Alice protocols basically teach us to be active. Instead of doing nothing, we're doing something," said Safety Specialist T.C. Bush. As an active shooter, it was [...]

Rutland, VT- In the face of nearly weekly mass shootings across the country, schools in Vermont are taking a hard look at the traditional lockdown.Locking the doors and shutting the blinds works, many school and law enforcement officials say — but not in all circumstances. In others, they say, it’s better to run — or [...]

IA- Administrators and teachers from multiple area schools attended Alert, Lockdown, Inform, Counter and Evacuate (ALICE) training during the summer of 2014. They then brought that training back to school with them to help formulate emergency plans and procedures in the case of an active shooter. “I think after Sandy Hook (the Connecticut elementary school [...]

Oshkosh Area School District- Oshkosh, WI How are schools in Northeast Wisconsin preparing to respond at a moment's notice? A scary moment at a Manitowoc school Thursday involving an intruder has many asking the question tonight. No one was injured in that incident. Police say schools, like malls, or movie theaters, need to have a [...]