An inspector conducting a security audit at a school campus in Uvalde, Texas, was able to gain access to a building through an exterior door due to a faulty latch, the superintendent said Monday.
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott ordered the Texas Center for School Safety in June to begin “random, in-person, unannounced intrusion detection audits” in districts across the state.
That order came just a week after a gunman burst through an exterior door at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde and opened fire, killing 19 students and two teachers.
Robb Elementary School is cordoned off by police following a May 24 mass shooting that left 19 students and two teachers dead.
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Inspectors approached three campuses in the Uvalde Consolidated Independent School District (CISD) in the recent audit. Two of the campuses were secure, but an inspector was able to gain access through a loading dock on the third campus.
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“They got access, and that was disappointing. It’s really 100% my responsibility to make sure that didn’t happen,” Uvalde CISD interim superintendent Gary Patterson said at a school board meeting.
“Honestly, the delivery of goods at the loading docks was something I overlooked, but I won’t overlook it next time.”
The exterior door of the west entrance through which the suspect entered Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas.
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Uvalde CISD schools are being outfitted with new security measures in the wake of the mass shooting, including fencing, surveillance cameras and monitors on campus.
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A Texas House committee report on the shooting found that “there was an unfortunate culture of non-compliance” with school security measures, giving the shooter “unimpeded access to enter” the Elementary School. Robb.
“In hindsight, we can say that Robb Elementary did not adequately prepare for the risk of an armed intruder on campus,” the lawmakers wrote.
Privacy barriers and bike racks maintain a perimeter at a monument outside Robb Elementary School.
(Reuters/Kaylee Greenlee Beal/File)
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The school district is also in the process of hiring a new police force after furloughing all existing officers in October.
