by Nathalie Sczublewski
Published to The News Service of Florida on Aug. 9, 2018
SUNRISE — Family members whose loved ones were killed during a massacre at a Parkland high school in February slammed the Broward County School board for failing to make schools safe, just one week before classes begin.
by Nathalie Sczublewski
Published to The News Service of Florida on Aug. 8, 2018
SUNRISE — Guy Grace, a school-security official whose Colorado community was rocked by the 1999 murders at Columbine High School, shared school-hardening solutions Wednesday with a commission formed after this year’s mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland.
by Nathalie Sczublewski
Published to The News Service of Florida on July 11, 2018
SUNRISE — Problems with the communications system exposed by the response to a mass shooting at a Parkland high school aren’t isolated to Broward County, according to testimony at a meeting held by a commission tasked with preventing future catastrophes.
by Nathalie Sczublewski
Alex Schachter loved music.
The trombone player was a member of the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School marching band, and yesterday was his 15th birthday.
But Alex will always remain a 14-year-old.
by Lloyd Dunkelberger and Nathalie Sczublewski
Published to The News Service of Florida on July 12
TALLAHASSEE — A school-safety commission examining the mass shooting at a Parkland high school heard testimony Thursday about Florida’s fractured and overwhelmed mental health system.
As part of a three-day hearing in Broward County, the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School Public Safety Commission turned its focus to the role the mental health system may have played in the Feb. 14 tragedy that left 14 students and three staff members dead.
by Nathalie Sczublewski
Published to The News Service of Florida on June 8, 2018
SUNRISE — A panel tasked with investigating February’s deadly shooting at a South Florida high school on Friday heard a troubling account of a database designed to allow school officials and deputies to share information about students who could be dangerous.
The information came during a discussion about school resource officers, or SROs, as part of the Marjory Stoneman Douglas Public Safety Commission’s investigation into the Feb. 14 massacre at the Parkland high school that left 14 students and three faculty members dead.
by Nathalie Sczublewski
Published to The News Service of Florida on June 7, 2018
SUNRISE, Fla. – The Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School Public Safety Commission met Thursday as it continued reviewing events surrounding the Feb. 14 mass shooting in Parkland that killed 17 students and faculty members.
The commission, created in March as part of a school safety law (SB 7026) passed in the aftermath of the Marjory Stoneman Douglas massacre, discussed security risk assessments, school discipline programs and new mental-health assistance programs during the meeting at the BB&T Center in Sunrise.
Students at the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School Eagle Eye newspaper publish their memorial issue after 17 were killed at their high school
by Nathalie Sczublewski
Published on April 6, 2018
As students awaited for the final bell of the day to release them for spring break, students at the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School Eagle Eye newspaper submitted their most important issue to print. The third quarter, special edition paper is a memorial issue honoring 14 of their classmates and three educators killed on February 14.
There isn’t a handbook that teaches journalists how to cover mass shootings. There isn’t a handbook that teaches people how to recover from a mass shooting either. The Eagle Eye staff are mass shooting survivors and lost friends and teachers. For some, they found that immersing into writing was therapeutic in their healing process. Others found it difficult at times to report stories. The class established a support system by assisting those who struggled to compose an article due to the subject matter.
by Nathalie Sczublewski
Published on April 4, 2018
With students, teachers and family members of victims of the mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in attendance, Democratic Congressman Ted Deutch hosted a town-hall meeting Tuesday evening to address legislation to prevent gun violence.
“We are here because the brave families who lost loved ones at Stoneman Douglas have stood up and through their courage, have set examples for the rest of us in all of the ways we should be looking to keep our schools safe and to prevent something like this from ever happening again,” Deutch said during the event at the Coral Springs Center for the Arts in Broward County. “And we also have to express our gratitude to the student survivors who have not allowed this issue to go by the wayside.”
Published February 19, 2018
CORAL SPRINGS, February 19, 2018 — Parents, teachers and students attended a town hall meeting organized by Everytown for Gun Safety, Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense and students at the Coral Springs Center for the Arts in Coral Springs on Monday afternoon.
The meeting was put together as part of the aftermath of a mass shooting in Parkland that killed 14 students and three educators this past Wednesday when a former student entered Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, armed with an AK-15 rifle.
“A week ago from today, if you asked me what the number 17 meant, I would say it’s my age,” said Alex Wind, a junior at the high school. “But now, 17 is more than a number. It’s Alyssa, it’s Scott, it’s Martin, it’s Nick, it’s Aaron, it’s Jaime, it’s Chris, it’s Luke, it’s Cara, it’s Gina, it’s Joaquin, it’s Alaina, it’s Meadow, it’s Helena, it’s Alex, it’s Carmen and it’s Peter.”
Speakers at the town hall included students and teachers from Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, leaders in Everytown and Moms Demand Action such as Ashley Cech and her mother Yvonne Cech, a fourth-grade teacher who survived the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting and Congressman Ted Deutch (D-FL).
Nathalie Sczublewski 