We conducted an inspection of the Lukachukai Community School, located on the Navajo Reservation in Lukachukai, AZ, to determine the quality of safety measures in place to prevent violence against students and staff from internal and external threats. We found Lukachukai Community School's safety measures to be inadequate.
Specifically, Lukachukai Community School personnel were unable to locate a copy of the comprehensive emergency plan during our visit on January 15, 2014. In addition, while training in violence prevention and emergency preparedness was provided, school personnel were unable to run either a lock-down or evacuation drill during our visit.
Further, of the 18 safety measures we checked for, Lukachukai Community School did not have 8 in place. While no single safety measure is so critical that its absence at an educational facility is cause for immediate concern, we found that the more safety measures not in place, the less prepared the school is to respond to an incident.
We provided six recommendations to help Lukachukai Community School improve its safety measures and its violence prevention and emergency preparedness training.