“The delivery of good into loading docks was just something quite honestly something I overlooked. It is not something I will overlook next time,” Patterson said
Uvalde CISD Interim Superintendent Gary Paterson addressed the school board earlier this week on Monday about a school safety audit that was conducted by the Texas School Safety Center Intruder Detection Audit.Patterson stated Uvalde CISD was randomly selected for a Intruder Detection Audit which was conducted within the last 10 days.
Audit teams can consist of a one to three man team. The mission of the team is to try to walk on campuses and try to gain access to exterior doors. The audits are conducted from the Region 20 Service Center.
According to Patterson, the auditors attempted to gain access to three of Uvalde CISD campuses as part of this audit. They were not not able to gain access.
“We did get dinged through.” Patterson said.
“There was access gained on one exterior door at a campus that was in a cafeteria loading dock area, It was not in a fenced in area but in an area next to a parking lot,” Patterson
The intruder checked the delivery door and saw that it was locked but when the person pulled on the lock the door opened. The latch was faulty. Patterson explained the incident was caught by campus video cameras.
“Access was gained into the cafeteria. There were no students in the cafeteria. He was stopped by staff in the cafeteria,” Patterson said.
Patterson went onto say it was 100% his responsibility to see that didn’t happen. “The delivery of good into loading docks was just something quite honestly something I overlooked. It is not something I will overlook next time,” He said.
