Will County Regional Office of Education Supt. Dr. Lisa Caparelli-Ruff announced the upcoming 2025 Will County School Safety Summit, scheduled for Friday, January 10, from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m., at Lewis University, Flight Deck, 101 W. Airport Road, Romeoville. This event aims to unite educators, school administrators, first responders, and elected officials in preparing for unified responses to school emergencies and will feature a keynote address by retired Arvada, Colorado, Police Department Deputy Chief AJ DeAndrea and John-Michael Keyes, co-founder of the I Love U Guys Foundation.
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“Our keynote presentation will be a debrief of the Platte Canyon High School shooting, presented by retired Deputy Chief DeAndrea and Keyes, who lost his daughter, Emily, during the incident. The loss of Emily spurred John-Michael and his wife, Ellen, to start the I Love U Guys Foundation. Their story is the “why” behind the push to make the I Love U Guys’ Standard Response Protocol and Standard Reunification Method the accepted framework for all-hazards school responses in Will County,” noted Dr. Caparelli-Ruff.