The county’s first responders and school officials gathered on August 7 to share their knowledge and questions about preparations for any armed attacks at campuses. Emergency Management Coordinator Billy Jordan challenged the group to dig in on multi-agency relationship building in order to identify issues that could cost lives.
Representatives from Westhoff, Yorktown, Nordheim, Cuero, Meyersville and Yoakum schools, law enforcement and fire/ EMS gathered to set up plans for multi-agency responses.
“We say armed attackers rather than active shooters,” TDEM District Chief Ernesto Paiz said, “because it can be a pen, a pencil, a baseball bat and anything else.” Sheriff Carl Bowen, who is required by law to facilitate two meetings a year of school safety officials, reviewed the topics from the first meeting and turned the meeting over to Jordan to discuss multi-agency coordination.
