Threat Assessment Active Shooter Response And Recovery - IACLEA

Western Association of Campus Law
Enforcement Administrators
Presents our:
2011 Fall Conference
Date: September 28—30, 2011
Location:
Chemeketa Community College
Brooks Regional Training Center
4910 Brooklake Rd. NE
Brooks, Oregon 97305
Map and Directions
SHILO has rooms held for the WACLEA
Conference for $65 per night. They have 15
rooms blocked off but will hold more if we
need them.
Shilo Inn Suites - Salem
3304 Market Street NE
Salem, OR 97301
503 581-4001
www.shiloinns.com
For more information about
the conference location
contact our Conference Host:
Bill Kohlmeyer
Chemeketa Community College
Public Safety Manager
Phone: 503-399-6505
E-mail:
bill.kohlmeyer@chemeketa.edu
For all other questions contact:
Barbara L. Pierce
Security Director
Lewis-Clark State College
WACLEA Secretary
500 8th Avenue
Lewiston, ID 83501
O: 208.792.2226
F: 208.792.2137
C: 208.816.1166
E-mail: blpierce@lcsc.edu
Click here to
REGISTER
Topic:
Threat Assessment
&
Active Shooter Response and Recovery
Wednesday, September 28
7:30 am: Breakfast
Conference Agenda
8am—12pm: Session I Threat Assessment—Rod Swinehart and Dave
Okada
12pm—1pm: Lunch hosted by WACLEA
1pm—3pm: Session II Threat Assessment Cont.
3pm—5pm: Session III Case Study and Round Table Discussion—Bill
Kohlmeyer
6pm—?? - WACLEA Board Meeting and Dinner
Thursday, September 29
7:30 am: Breakfast
8am—12pm: Session IV Response to Active Shooter—Bill Kohlmeyer
12pm—1pm: Lunch hosted by WACLEA/General Meeting/Elections
1pm—5pm: Session V What to Expect from a Police SWAT Response to
an Active Shooter—Salem Police, Marion County Sheriff’s Office, and
Oregon State Police
6pm—?? - WACLEA General Membership Banquet
Friday, September 30
7:30 am: Breakfast
8am—12pm: Session VI—Recovery after a Major Incident—Dealing with
Trauma to Employees & Students—Cheri Lovre

Western Association of Campus Law Enforcement
Administrators
2011 Fall Conference
Guest Speaker Biographies
Rod Swinehart
PO Box 20584
Keizer, OR 97307
Ph. # 503-991-2297
Rod Swinehart has over thirty years of experience in a variety of criminal justice capacities, with the majority of this experience
being the assessment of individuals, departments and organizations regarding issues of security and efficiency.
Rod has personally conducted over 10, 000 interviews with criminal defendants and additional follow-up interviews with
their families, friends and their alleged victims.
Rod coordinated the formation of the Marion County Threat Advisory Team (TAT) in 1998 and currently serves as its
chairman. This team, composed of representatives from the Judicial Department, Law Enforcement and Schools was
the first of its kind in the nation. The team continues to operate today with a mission to assess situations of potential
violence and manage those situations to decrease the likelihood that they will progress to violence. Currently TAT has
representatives and advisors from the below listed agencies:
The Oregon State Police
The Marion County Sheriff’s Office
Salem Police Department
Keizer Police Department
Salem/Keizer Public Schools
The Willamette Education Service District
The Marion County District Attorney’s Office
Marion County Health Department (Mental Health)
Marion County Risk Management Department
The Oregon Judicial Branch’s Third Judicial District (Circuit Courts of Marion County)
The Oregon Department of Veterans Affairs
In 2005, he received an award of recognition from the Northwest Chapter of the Association of Threat Assessment Professionals
for his contributions to the practice of Threat Assessment. Rod currently serves as the Vice President of the
Northwest Chapter of the Association of Threat Assessment Professionals.
Rod is the president of Protective Research, Inc. primarily providing safety and security consultation to public and private
organizations.

Western Association of Campus Law Enforcement
Administrators
2011 Fall Conference
Guest Speaker Biographies
CMI Director Cheri Lovre
Meet the Director
Cheri Lovre, MS, Director of CMI, has over 30 years of experience in the field of prevention, crisis
response, grief, trauma and many related topics. Because of her range of experience, she has developed
a philosophy and a specific approach toward the unique requirements of survivors of trauma.
The focus of much of that time has been working with schools in the aftermath of student and staff
deaths, suicides, homicides, natural disasters, traumatic events, shootings, arrests of staff for internet
child pornography, teacher-student sexual misconduct and a wide range of other tragedies that overwhelm
a district’s usual abilities to cope.
During the '80's, while employed by Marion Education Services District in Salem, OR, she worked
extensively on creating training and materials for crisis response teams, which has become one of her
specialties. She was asked to respond to Springfield Public Schools following the shooting at Thurston
High School in May of 1998, where she spent over a week working with staff, parents and students.
Ms. Lovre received initial contact from the superintendent's office of Jefferson County Public Schools
as the tragedy at Columbine was unfolding and went on to spend a week in Littleton.
Following September 11, 2001
She received a call from the office of the Chancellor of New York on 9/11 as events were unfolding
and spent much of the following two years serving the 29 "schools that fled" as the towers collapsed.
She worked for over two years with administrators, counselors, teachers, parents and children, and
integrated Systems Thinking into the activities used to help all regain stability. This event was the first
time the United States had suffered circumstances with such powerful impact to schools in which the
whole community support system (including emergency services) was unavailable to assist the schools. Her time on the east coast included serving
many schools and communities in New Jersey, where many of those who died in the towers had lived.
The Tsunami
Following the tsunami in Asia, Ms. Lovre spent time working with an orphanage and school in Sri Lanka. This provided new and important lessons
regarding the resiliency and needs of an already-traumatized population (orphans) who subsequently survive a catastrophic event together. Some of
these new insights are valuable as we face the possible re-traumatization of American students who have been through one catastrophic event and
then must cope with yet another.
Hurricanes Katrina and Rita
Following the hurricanes, Ms. Lovre provided both staff development and group work with students who had relocated because of the hurricanes. Child
after child had pictures of a foundation or less and told stories about where their houses had been and shared their dreams or fears about whether
their families would be able to return. There were some interesting correlations across the cultures in the art work of survivors of the tsunami and
those who had relocated because of hurricanes. Some of the similar responses unique to these two disasters held new insights about how children
process this kind of event and what kinds of safeguards their minds are able to utilize.
The shooting at Nickle Mines ~ an Amish community and their neighbors
Following the massacre, Ms. Lovre provided support to the community and families and provided training and support to schools in Pennsylvania.
Virginia Tech.
As this horrific event has been unfolding, Ms. Lovre has been assisting in the local area and with institutions, parents, students and the media across
the U.S.
And In General...
Ms. Lovre has provided training and technical assistance to the National Association of Secondary School Principals, the U. S. Department of Education,
the American School Counselors Association, and other national and state educational agencies. (View partial list) As school crises have grown and
changed, her materials and training continue to reflect the cutting edge in her field. Another outgrowth of her work has been to help states create
state-wide teams to help respond to schools in the aftermath of major catastrophic events, such as shootings, natural and human-caused disasters,
multiple death accidents and other events. Ms. Lovre continues to integrate into her work the cutting-edge concepts of Professional Learning Communities,
Systems Thinking and resiliency to enhance the efficacy of her plans and publications. Her goal is to remain at the cutting edge, taking the
whole field of crisis response to the level needed when responding to events as overwhelming and complex as terrorism and overwhelming natural
disasters.

Western Association of Campus Law Enforcement
Administrators
Bill Kohlmeyer
2011 Fall Conference
Guest Speaker Biographies
Bill Kohlmeyer is a retired Salem Police lieutenant, serving in almost every area of law enforcement
over his 30 year career, including uniform patrol as an officer, corporal, sergeant
and lieutenant. He spent 10 years in detectives-- investigating property crimes as well as robbery/homicide
and sex crimes and spent five years on the bomb squad. Bill worked narcotics
and commanded the inter-agency narcotics team and also supervised the street crimes unit and
crime prevention. Bill was also an original member of the department SWAT team and served a
total of 18 years with SWAT as a sniper, entry team member, team leader and overall emergency
operations team commander. Bill also spent three years as motorcycle sergeant for Salem
Police; was acting Deputy Police Chief for 14 months and the Public Information Officer
for 10 years. Bill has been the Director of Public Safety at Chemeketa Community College for
4 years and serves on the Marion County Threat Assessment Team.

Joe Kast
Western Association of Campus Law Enforcement
Administrators
2011 Fall Conference
Guest Speaker Biographies
Joe Kast, 45 years old, in law enforcement for over 19 years now, was in the US Air Force
for four years as an electronic technician prior to that.
Been a law enforcement officer since 1992, in two states (Georgia for the first 2 ½ years
and then at Marion County, Oregon since 1995).
Have worked in several areas of law enforcement, to include the jail, patrol, detectives,
Street Crimes/Narcotics, was a K9 handler and I have been on SWAT for over 14 years. I am
now the SWAT commander for Marion County Sheriff's Office SWAT Team, which consists of more
than 20 tactical members and 8 negotiators.
I have been involved in a multitude of routine patrol and tactical incidents, as well as
other interesting and educational incidents. Was the MCSO SWAT supervisor when subject
drove his pickup into the M.C. Courthouse in November 2005 with incendiary devices and guns,
he did over 10 million in damage to the building at that incident. Worked with Salem SWAT
(both SWAT Teams) to help resolve that incident. I was also the Supervisor put in charge of
the Woodburn Bank Bombing Homicide investigation in December 12, 2008 and worked with over
300 investigators from various local, state and federal law enforcement agencies to resolve
that incident.
I currently work in the administrative side of the Sheriff's Office, other than continuing
to run the tactical operations for the Sheriff's Office SWAT Team.