District-Wide Safe Schools and Crisis Plan - Blytheville Public Schools

J. DEATH NOTIFICATION PROTOCOL
Important: Blytheville Public School personnel should never initiate or
conduct a death notification. This role will be assumed exclusively by an
agency representative from the Mississippi County Emergency Responders
outside of the school system.
K. Evacuation and Reunification
The goal of the Evacuation and Reunification Plan is to give school-based
administrators and their Crisis Teams specific locations, protocol and guidelines in the
event of a crisis that requires removing hundreds and possibly thousands of students
and staff from campus. Some crises require the immediate removal of students and
staff from the campus. A detailed plan must be in place to handle massive crowds of
people. Students must be accounted for, transported to a safe location and eventually
reunited with their parents and guardians. This section lays out a detailed plan for
evacuating students and staff. It also gives specific protocol and guidelines on
transporting the students to predetermined destinations that are capable of
accommodating them for several hours. This section also gives protocol on the
specific requirements to reunify students with their parents/guardians.
K.1. EVACUATION
The evacuation of students and staff from any Blytheville Public School building will
follow protocol. Evacuations have been categorized relative to cause and rationale
including, although not limited to, bomb threat, suspicious packages, hostage situation,
fire, and unsafe campus exterior.
K.2. REMOTE EVACUATION AND REUNIFICATION
In accordance to general protocol Principals and Staff will follow the guideline
sequence of steps to evacuate students and board busses for transportation to the
Family Reunification Center. The following points of emphasis are relevant to a
decision to activate evacuation and reunification:
Principal Response
The decision to transport evacuated students to a designated site for
family reunification must be approved in consult with the
Superintendent, Safety Director, and Assistant Superintendent.
Through preliminary discussions with the Transportation Department, a
bus driver staff should be identified, in addition to, assigned faculty/staff (two
per bus) for the purposes of student transport from campus to reunification
site. An alternate staff member should be selected for each bus to serve in case
of the primary staff member’s absence.
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