Florida school safety laws after Parkland massacre touted by victim's dad as national 'blueprint'

ORLANDO, Fla. – Since the Parkland precocious schoolhouse shooting, Florida's elected leaders person pledged to instrumentality proactive measures, making the authorities a "blueprint" for preventing wide shootings.

Their advocacy and legislative enactment was connected show astatine the inaugural Florida National Summit connected School Safety, wherever instrumentality enforcement and schoolhouse officials from 20 antithetic states came unneurotic with 1 extremity – to stock champion practices successful schoolhouse safety.

Fox News Digital spoke with Ryan Petty, who mislaid his 14-year-old girl Alaina successful the 2018 shooting astatine Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School successful Parkland, Florida. Petty shared however Florida is preventing wide shootings, and what different states tin learn.

"We've had schoolhouse information bills present each twelvemonth since the Parkland tragedy," helium said. "So we're doing a batch of things close present successful Florida, and we wanted to stock that blueprint with the remainder of the country. So we invited states from crossed the federation to come, and we're each learning from each other. And hopefully, arsenic a group, assistance each different lick this problem."

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Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School successful Parkland, Florida, connected Feb. 13, 2021. (Matias J. Ocner/Miami Herald/Tribune News Service via Getty Images)

Ryan Petty, whose 14-year-old girl Alaina was killed successful the 2018 Parkland precocious schoolhouse shooting, tells Fox News Digital that "how we support our nation’s schools tracks overmuch much intimately with the effect JD Vance gave than thing Tim Walz said."  (Joe Raedle/Getty Images)

Alaina Petty was 1 of the 17 radical who were killed connected Feb. 14, 2018 astatine Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School. The shooter, Nikolas Cruz, a 19-year-old erstwhile pupil astatine the school, opened occurrence connected students and staff, sidesplitting 17 radical and injuring 17 others. The victims included 14 students and 3 unit members.

"They accidental clip heals each wounds, but it's 7 years now, and it's inactive the archetypal happening I deliberation astir successful the greeting erstwhile I aftermath up, and it's often the past happening I deliberation astir earlier I spell to sleep," helium said. 

"Which is wherefore this ngo is truthful important. I cognize my daughter, Alaina, would beryllium arrogant of maine for advocating for different students to beryllium protected from a information that I didn't recognize was possible," helium said.

The Florida National Summit connected School Safety highlighted however the authorities has worked to amended schoolhouse information pursuing the Parkland, Florida precocious schoolhouse shooting successful 2018 that killed 17. (Sarah Rumpf-Whitten/Fox News Digital)

Florida Commissioner of Education Manny Díaz Jr. highlighted however the Parkland shooting brought attraction to the U.S. Secret Service's (USSS) probe connected "leakage," oregon informing signs, preceding a wide shooting.

"The calamity of Parkland is an illustration of wherever everything went incorrect and wherever determination were multi-agency failures up front," helium told Fox News Digital. "There was leakage aggregate times that this could person been stopped the front. So it was a implicit nonaccomplishment crossed the board, allowing america to larn from that incident.

"And we've been capable to enactment successful spot not lone these preemptive measures with the menace assessment, but we've present evolved into menace management, wherever erstwhile we instrumentality a pupil into that process, we show that pupil to marque definite that they person services to debar a crisis," helium said.

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He shared that Florida officials person "hardened" their schools by creating azygous introduction points, updating exertion and having constabulary oregon further guardians that are trained to prevent on-campus shootings.

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Díaz said that successful each the past wide shootings crossed the U.S., determination was ever a situation point.

"We cognize successful each of these shootings that determination was leakage, but there's besides the ability, if you person things right, to forestall it, adjacent aft everything other has failed," helium said.

A memorial is made extracurricular Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, wherever 17 students and module were killed successful a wide shooting successful Parkland, Florida, Feb. 19, 2018. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert, File)

Utah has taken notes connected however Florida has risen from the Parkland tragedy. Matt Pennington, the Utah State Security Chief with the Department of Public Safety, said that they person "paralleled" Florida's legislation.

Pennington told Fox News Digital that Utah's legislative assemblage is taking proactive steps to forestall a calamity earlier it happens.

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"Several of the Parkland parents came to our legislative league and spoke to legislators astir their experience, their interaction and however it's affected them successful their lives," helium said. "And that truly conscionable drove it location erstwhile you person radical coming that are victims and their children person mislaid their lives owed to schoolhouse violence.

"It's truly important that we get up of this successful Utah and hopefully not person an attack."