LAS VEGAS (FOX5) — A new collaborative initiative between Las Vegas Valley leaders is aimed at protecting students as they travel to and from school.
The School Traffic Safety Working Group met for the first time last month. Clark County’s Director of Traffic Safety, Andrew Bennett, said the county is leading the group.
The Clark County School District, along with every jurisdiction, road owner and police department in the valley has a seat at the table. He explained their goal is to get everyone on the same page by coming up with a joint plan to keep students safe.
“Any kid who can’t get to school is a kid that can’t learn,” Bennett said. “We’re looking at education, enforcement, engineering, and policy to ensure that we’re all aligned.”
By spring, he says he hopes they’ll be able to publish a “list of recommended best practices.” He provided some examples of what that list may include.
“The placement of the school zones, the lengths of the school zones, what the sidewalks look like in front of schools,” he said. “These are all things that we want to make standard.”
CCSD’s Chief Community Engagement Officer, Kirsten Searer, said the group’s also working to identify problem-areas in school zones.
“Where are the areas where we need to act most quickly to protect our kids?” Searer explained.
Web Page
Searer said education is also a huge piece of school zone safety.
She is hoping the School Zone Safety Web Page CCSD launched at the beginning of the school year will explain to parents and guardians who is responsible for what. Then, help direct concerns to the best point of contact.
The web page breaks down school zone rules. Then, it is divided into three main categories: school zone enforcement, crossing guards and roadway concerns.
“We were reviewing all the e-mail concerns that we received through our CCSD PD traffic e-mail last year, and we were seeing that those were the big buckets of areas where we were seeing questions,” Searer said.
Folks can ask for additional traffic enforcement by CCSDPD by emailing [email protected]. But, both conce0+rns about the roadways and crossing guards should be directed to municipalities.
Anyone unsure about which municipality their school falls under can type in their address to get that answer.
“Our goal with this website is to provide a one-stop shop so that people know where they can go when they have a concern,” Searer said.
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