THE CHALLENGE “We needed a blueprint for disaster . . . from emergency first response to human services,” Livingston County (MI) Emergency Planning and Response Director Therese Cremonte says. “But what I really wanted was to pay attention to post-incident recovery.” Since Columbine, Cremonte thinks law enforcement has improved its real-time incident response. But she thinks post-event recovery hasn’t received enough focus. Emergency planners wanted to completely understand off-site parent-student reunification, from notification to student management accountability and reunification. They held a mock event in 2017. Participants used paper rosters, checklists, and walkie- talkies for in-incident communications. Christopher Parks, Brighton High School Resource Officer and memb

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