Opinion: As San Diego County district attorney, preventing school shootings is a fervent priority

It’s an unsettling and a deeply painful fact that in America, schools are no longer the haven that our children should be able to count on. It is the right of every child to grow up without violence, but from Columbine High School in Littleton, Colorado, to Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, and every school shooting in between, school safety has been dismantled one life at a time.

The pressing question is “Can we prevent a school shooting from happening in the first place?” The answer is, “Yes.” In San Diego, we believe that we can provide hope to the nation’s schools and replace fear with confidence based on a uniquely collaborative model where everyone has a role in the solution.

That’s why since 2018, we have been working to stop would-be school shooters before they can act, through the School Threats Protocol, which encompasses all 42 school districts in the county. The protocol guides how schools, law enforcement and prosecutors respond to school threats, using evidence-based guidelines for investigation and resolution of the threat. This innovative protocol was updated in November 2021 to meet the latest research from the U.S.

The most important revelation from our work in this area is the importance teachers and school professionals, who have eyes and ears on students, play in detecting and addressing concerning and threatening behavior through a consistent protocol. When we look back at most school shootings, shooters made public threats, but they were ignored. San Diego’s protocol is built to not miss this information through the help of our protocol partners.

Equally important is the role the public, students and parents have of alerting law enforcement to harmful threats, no matter how trivial they may seem. Consider this:

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