School Shooting Investigation Names Admins, Including Now Evolv Marketing Director, For "Failure And Responsibility By Omission"

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** ********,although ***** *** ** ****** ****** ** *** **************’* ******* *** ******* ****** ******* ****** ***** ****, Lemond *** ******** ** ******* ***** ** ****** ******** ******* as the Assistant Superintendent of Student Services. For example, she *** ******* *********** *** *** ********’* ********* ********** **** and she ******* *** ********* ***** ****** ************ **** ****. As she became more involved in safety-related issues, Lemond received safety-related training and helped ** ******* **** ******** *** *** ********, ********* *********** ******** ** **** *** *****, ****** ******* ************ (*****), *** ********** ****** ***********. [emphasis added]

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Safety *** ****** **** ** *** ********* ** *** ************* *** **** *** **** ******, I've been here for 12 years, and safety *** ****** **** ** *** ********* ** ****** ************* and budgeted for and really highly invested in.

We've *** ** **** ********* ******* *** ********* *** **********, and we have some great things in place that I am very confident our administrative team can continue into the future. [emphasis added]

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I **** ** *********** ***, ** ** *** ***** ********* in other schools to help **** *********** ****** *** *********** *** **** ****** ******* *** ******. And I think I need to take this opportunity, and it [Evolv] is the right company for me to do that

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***it ** ********* ** **** ***** ******* ** ***** and look at that vector, that intersection between suicide ********** and then threat to others,threat ********** to others, so that’s an important interaction between those two assessments. [emphasis added]

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So * ***** *** ******** *** *** **** *** *** **** ******** ** ******* ********* ***** ** *** ***** ******* ******. Evolv does have a charitable arm that actually gifted the systems to Oxford High School after the incident. So ***** *** ** ***** ********. They **** ***** ** **** ** **** ** *** *********, but then it’s also important to use your camera systems and to utilize other technology that maybe can find a brandished weapon. And there are plenty of different ways to do that. Evolv does have an option for that, but there are other others in that space who do that very well, and they did actually do that in Oxford also post-incident. [emphasis added]

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We **** **** *** *** ********** ** *** ***** ***** ******** ***** ** *** ********, because the school ** ** * *** ***** **** and there was no ******* ** ***** ***** ** ********* *****. We concur with OHS’s decision to employ them after the shooting.

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