Lincoln Public Schools

Transportation Safety

SRP-T

August 1, 2025

Objectives today...

• Teach: What is SRP?
• SRP-T
• Know your route
• Scenarios
• Threat Assessment
• Safety Measures
• Questions

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LPS Security

Kyle Poore, Security Coordinator

kpoore2@lps.org 402-436-1517

Lincoln Public Schools Edition

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Response

Protocol

SRP

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Standard Response Protocols (SRP)

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When “Oh-No” Happens

Why SRP?

KP it simple:

• Common Language
• Plain Language
• All Hazards Approach

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Secure

KP it simple:

• Say it TWICE
• How will you announce?
• What about people not in the building

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Secure

KP it simple:

• Threat is OUTSIDE
• Nobody in or out
• Business as usual inside

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Secure

Example:

There is a heavy police presence in the area

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Lockdown

KP it simple:

• Threat is INSIDE
• Evacuate if you can (relocate)
• Out of sight
• Common areas?
• Police release

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Locked Doors

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Lockdown

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Evacuate

KP it simple:

• Not just for fires
• Accountability
• Prepare for relocation

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Area of Refuge

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Shelter

KP it simple:

• Not just for tornados
• Accountability
• How will you get out of protocol

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Hold

KP it simple:

• Keep area clear
• Business as usual in individual spaces
• Transitions

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Police are serving a search warrant at a house near the school.

Police are serving a search warrant a house near the school.

A tornado warning has been placed for Lincoln.

A tornado warning has been placed for Lincoln.

Students begin to fight in the hallway.

Students begin to fight in the hallway.

There is a smell of gas inside the building.

There is a smell of gas inside the building.

Someone is inside the building with a knife.

Someone is inside the building with a knife.

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Relocation / Reunification (accountability)

Lincoln Public Schools Edition

Standard

Response

Protocol

SRP

Lincoln Public Schools Edition

Standard

Response

Protocol

SRP

What about on the bus?

Lincoln Public Schools Edition

Standard

Response

Protocol -

Transportation

SRP-T

GO STOP HOLD EVACUATE

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SRP-T

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GO

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STOP

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HOLD

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EVACUATE

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RESPONSES

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RESPONSES

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RESPONSES

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RESPONSES

• Take 30 seconds to process the scenario
• We will ask for you to hold up a 1, 2, 3, or 4
• No right or wrong answers, just scenarios to discuss
• Not every scenario will require an SRP-T action

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Speed Scenarios

Dispatch contacts the driver who is nearing the end of their route (pick up before school) and advises the school is in SECURE because police are serving a warrant a block away from the school.

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Speed Scenario #1

Dispatch broadcasts that Lincoln is in a Tornado Watch.

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Speed Scenario #2

Dispatch broadcasts that Lincoln is in a Tornado WARNING.

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Speed Scenario #2b

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Bus/Route

Where are your locations?

As you are driving a student comes up to the seat behind the driver and tells you another student on the bus just showed them a knife in their backpack.

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Speed Scenario #3

• Check out lps.org/security/threat
• Who is on this team?
• Sarah Balcom, Allyson Headrick, Kristi Lange
• Nate Hill - LPD
• Liesel Hogan - Psychotherapist
• What does the team do?
• Follow-up on ALL threats
• Work closely with the schools
• Meet weekly
• Association of Threat Assessment Professionals (ATAP)
• Members
• Presenters (Local, State, National)

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District Threat Assessment

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Safe to Say

When you arrive at your school you see there is no one at the door or walking around the building. You hear sounds of screaming from inside the school when you open the bus doors.

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Speed Scenario #4

You are finishing your route with 5 students remaining on the bus when one of the students begins to have a seizure.

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Speed Scenario #5

You are in a school taking a short break when the school goes into Secure right when you need to leave.

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Speed Scenario #6

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Controlled Access

Ted

Lasso

When you arrive at the school, there is a fire truck and an ambulance in the space you typically drop off your students.

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Speed Scenario #7

Two students start a fight on the bus. One student is injured.

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Speed Scenario #8

You have a parent walking up to your bus at one of your stops. The parent starts banging on the bus windows trying to get to “the little jerk who keeps bullying my kid”.

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Speed Scenario #9

You have been involved in a minor accident. An EL student comes to you and says they are confused and scared for what to do next and how to contact their parent, what can you do to help?

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Speed Scenario #10

• #1 Safety Measure in our district

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Safety Measures

Joe Wright - Director of Security

jwright@lps.org 402-436-1641

Kyle Poore - Security Coordinator

kpoore2@lps.org 402-436-1517

Sarah Balcom - Security Coordinator

sbalcom@lps.org 402-436-1457

Tanisha Gray - Administrative Assistant

tgray2@lps.org 402-436-1495

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Questions / District Support