Miami-Dade Public Schools Superintendent Alberto M. Carvalho, School Board Members, Miami-Dade County Mayor Carlos Gimenez, and mayors and police chiefs from Miami-Dade’s municipalities hosted the third Joint Roundtable on Youth Safety on Monday, October 29, at the Miami Senior High School.
Since the first roundtable on January 2013, four working groups – In-School Youth Safety, Out -of-School Youth Safety, Youth Services and Community Education and Empowerment – have worked tirelessly to leverage the district’s collective resources, encourage and increase community engagement, and improve safety protocols for the district’s public spaces in order to create an envelope of safety around children.
The second roundtable held in March 2013 allowed mayors and police chiefs to review short- and long-term recommendations by the working groups and discuss how to best implement them throughout communities.
The focus of this third roundtable was to provide an update of the work and develop a joint legislative request for full funding by the Florida Legislature for the requirement of a police officer at every public school and discuss possible statutory changes to SB 7026.
