LAS VEGAS (KTNV) — Friday is the last day for students in the Clark County School District before summer vacation, so CCSD Police and local law enforcement agencies are coming together to discuss community safety ahead of the school break.
They're expected to discuss a multitude of community safety reminders ahead of summer break, covering everything from incidents like the one that recently took place at Legacy High School to pedestrian fatalities that we've covered.
You can watch that address here live beginning at 10 a.m.:
When it comes to pedestrian safety, according to CCSD Police's newly launched online dashboard, there have been more than 400 student non-motorist crashes so far this school year, four of them fatal, with a large percentage of crashes involving e-scooters, which they say present the highest risk of injury among students.
The dashboard also shows that drivers are the ones in the wrong more often, but officials say that, although it could be drivers not paying attention, many times students are also distracted by devices.
Lt. Bryan Zink with CCSD Police told us he hoped the dashboard would create change and make students safer when walking to and from school.
As far as firearm safety on campus, numbers from CCSD police show that they've confiscated more than 30 handguns and two long guns since August.
At the start of the school year, we got a question from a viewer asking why every high school couldn't have metal detectors or a security system to get into schools.
