More than a dozen Austin ISD campuses have undergone state-mandated security audits. | beckyfogel
Austin ISD is addressing issues identified during recent state-mandated school security audits, officials said Thursday.
Gov. Greg Abbott directed the Texas School Safety Center to conduct inspections at school districts throughout the state after the mass shooting at Robb Elementary in Uvalde, which killed 19 children and two teachers. The center, based at Texas State University, gives school districts a heads up when the audits will occur, but it does not notify individual campuses.
“If the district does have a policy — administrative directive or verbal directive — to lock all classroom doors and keep them closed during the day, we will evaluate that, too,” Martinez-Prather said. “It’s not about dinging a district or an ‘I got ya,'" she said,"because at the end of the day, we want to help districts remedy these potential weaknesses to enhance the safety and security posture of their campuses."
“We do expect throughout the entire school year for 75% of our schools at a minimum to have a safety audit,” he said.