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Questions About Security Follow Noblesville School Shooting

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By Erica Irish
TheStatehouseFile.com

INDIANAPOLIS —  In March, soon after a shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, that left 17 dead, Noblesville Schools hosted a school safety forum to reveal its plans to provide students with a safe learning experience.

A presentation discussed at that public meeting posted to the Noblesville Schools website reported the corporation employs four school resource officers, or traditional law enforcement, and 14 school safety specialists.

The presentation lists several deterrence methods against school intruders, including office ID checks for visitors, locked doors, background checks and building construction.

The features listed, not including the law enforcement presence, only work against outside threats — not against individuals who have everyday access to a Noblesville school.

On Friday, a male student injured one teacher and one student in a shooting at Noblesville West Middle School Friday morning, Noblesville police confirmed.

Students reported the suspect, an unidentified male student, asked to be excused from a science class on the middle school’s second floor.

Noblesville Police Chief Kevin Jowitt said in a 2 p.m. press conference the student returned with two handguns and opened fire on the classroom.

Ethan Stonebraker, a seventh-grade student in the class, told the media that the teacher, science instructor, and football coach Jason Seaman, tackled the suspect.

Seaman is receiving treatment at IU Health Methodist, while the student was sent to Riley Children’s Hospital.

Police confirmed the suspect is in custody and unharmed. They also noted that one school resource officer was in the building at the time of the shooting but would not describe his or her role in the incident.

Details regarding individual safety features in Noblesville schools are not public due to safety concerns.

The school system does, however, subscribe to several prevention services. A few listed in the safety presentation include social skills lessons, counseling services, suicide threat assessments and a SpeakUp app, a web and mobile app where students can anonymously report bullying, harassment, and other threats.

The incident in Noblesville occurred after lawmakers changed school security procedures statewide with House Bill 1230, a measure passed at the legislature’s special session May 14.

HB 1230 provided Indiana schools with an additional $5 million in funding to improve school safety. Under the law, school corporations and charter schools may borrow up to $500,000 in funding advances to purchase school security equipment and other capital.

HB 1230 introduces more than resources. On top of the funding increase, all charter and private schools must create a school safety plan to provide to law enforcement, alongside a floor plan of the school. It also requires the Indiana Department of Education to conduct a statewide survey to understand the emotional and social state of students, among other provisions.

Gov. Eric Holcomb’s press team offered a statement in response to the shooting from the inaugural Paris to Indianapolis flight as the governor, House Speaker Brian Bosma, R-Indianapolis and retired Indiana Senate Pro Tem David Long, R-Fort Wayne, were returning to the states following an economic development tour in Europe.

“Approximately 100 state police officers have been made available to work with local responders and will offer all assistance needed,” the release read. “Our thoughts are with all those affected by this horrible situation.”

Representatives for Jennifer McCormick, Indiana’s superintendent of public instruction, offered support as reports of the shooting spread.

“We have confidence in Noblesville Schools Superintendent Dr. Beth Niedermeyer and her team, law enforcement, and first responders,” the statement, issued by the Indiana Department of Education, said.

Indiana Attorney General Curtis Hill called the shooting another mark of an “epidemic of violence sweeping across American schools” in a statement.

“School safety plans, resource officers, red flag laws and hardened targets are vital to the defense of our schools and our children,” Hill said in the release.

U.S. Representative Susan Brooks, R-Indiana, tweeted soon after the news came out.

“My prayers are with the Noblesville community, especially those who are injured & those who witnessed an active shooter situation — something no one should ever have to go through. Especially children,” her message read.

Indiana Senate Democrats issued a statement on the incident after a district press conference at 11:30 a.m.

“Legislators must admit seriously that we have to keep guns out of our schools, and restrict access to deadly weapons by dangerous individuals,” the statement read. “No child should go through something this traumatizing and it’s our job to stop it.”

FOOTNOTE: Erica Irish is a reporter for TheStatehouseFile.com, a news website powered by Franklin College journalism students.

Evansville First Responders Honored For EMS Appreciation Week

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Evansville First Responders Honored For EMS Appreciation Week

MAY 25TH, 2018 TYRONE MORRIS EVANSVILLE, INDIANA

Deaconess and the City of Evansville be recognized our local EMS professionals as part of Emergency Medical Services Week. It’s a way to show our police, fire and EMS workers how important they are to our local communities.

The week featured luncheons and receptions, and Friday there was an all-day breakfast and lunch to honor first responders. Emergency personnel says the general public sometimes doesn’t realize the role they play in keeping us all safe.

EMS system supervisor Angela Webb says, “I think it means the world to our first responders that we take our time aside and show them how important they are. Sometimes our first responders are not recognized the way they should be. It’s taken for granted by our public that they’re just gonna be there when we need them.”

EMS Appreciation Week has become an annual event.

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Trial Court ‘Clearly Erred’ In Granting Adoption Petition

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Dave Stafford for www.theindianalawyer.com

A Hamilton County judge’s ruling that a father’s consent was not required for a stepfather to adopt his child was clearly erroneous, the Indiana Court of Appeals ruled Friday, reversing the adoption.

In Re: The Matter of the Adoption of: E.M.L., (Minor) S.L. v. K.G., 29A05-1710-AD-2250, involved an adoption to which father S.L. objected. He is the father of E.M.L, who was born in 2009. The family lived together for a year before mother and child moved out, according to the record.

Father subsequently ran into trouble with the law. He was convicted of dealing methamphetamine in 2013 and incarcerated for more than a year. He pleaded guilty to a domestic battery charge in 2016 after slapping a girlfriend in front of children.

Meanwhile, mother T.G. and the child’s paternal grandparents, who lived in Brown County, kept in touch, and the child often spent weekends with them. Father often would talk to his child by phone and visit when the child stayed with grandparents.

After his domestic violence incident, though, mother sought to curtail E.M.L.’s contact with S.L., and eventually, the child’s grandparents. At the same time, father had been working steadily and significantly catching up on his child support obligations.

After stepfather K.G. moved to adopt the child, father objected. At a hearing, Hamilton Superior Judge Steve Nation granted mother and stepfather’s motion to exclude father from the proceedings over father’s objection. The trial court granted the adoption petition with findings that father’s consent was not required, that father had failed to pay child support including during periods of incarceration, and that father failed to significantly communicate with his child in the year before the adoption petition was filed.

Those rulings were clearly erroneous, Judge Michael Barnes wrote for the panel.

“(T)he trial court’s decision to effectively impose a retroactive child support obligation upon Father while incarcerated put the ultimate strain upon a family relationship, as it was used as partial justification to terminate his parental rights,” Barnes wrote. “Its finding that Father’s nonpayment of support while incarcerated obviated the need for his consent to Child’s adoption is clearly erroneous, as there is insufficient evidence he had the ability to pay during that time.”

Father also should not have been penalized for child support paid through tax intercepts rather than voluntarily when he returned to work, the court ruled. “The trial court’s finding that Father knowingly failed to provide for Child’s support during this time period is clearly erroneous,” the panel held.

Regarding lack of communication, the panel noted it was mother who sought to limit communication between her child and the child’s father, so the trial court’s ruling in this instance also was clearly erroneous.

“After Father’s release from incarceration, Mother terminated the previous arrangement — in place since Child’s infancy — whereby Child frequently spent weekends with Grandmother, which facilitated visitation between Father and Child even when Mother refused to allow Child to spend time alone with Father at his own residence,” Barnes wrote. “On occasion, Father did phone Mother to attempt to arrange some communication or visitation with Child. Unfortunately, these phone calls would disintegrate into arguments when Mother insisted that Father had to, for example, undergo counseling before he could see or talk to Child.

“Mother and the trial court discounted her clear efforts to hamper communication between Child and Father by essentially claiming that he should have expended more effort to force such communication, through legal channels or by simply, for example, showing up at Child’s sporting events in Noblesville unannounced and without Mother’s invitation and in contravention of Mother’s clearly-expressed desire that Father have no contact with Child. We conclude, however, that Father’s failure to fight Mother more aggressively with respect to communicating with Child does not mean he lacked justifiable cause for failing to communicate or that he was practically able to communicate.

“Father’s parenting time rights were never curtailed by any court order. We do not wish to be overly critical of Mother’s natural desire to protect Child, and there is no question that Father has been far from an ideal parent. However, there are established legal procedures to follow if a custodial parent believes restriction or complete cessation of a noncustodial parent’s parenting time is warranted. … Those procedures were not followed here. A custodial parent should not be able to unilaterally limit, place conditions on, or completely terminate a noncustodial parent’s parenting time, and then successfully assert in an adoption proceeding that the noncustodial parent was able to communicate with the child but failed to do so without justifiable cause.”

The adoption petition was therefore reversed.

Lt. Governor Suzanne Crouch to Visit Highland for Riley Fundraiser Recognition

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Friday, April 27
2:30 p.m.
Highland Elementary School, 6701 Darmstadt Rd. 
Students at Highland Elementary School have been busy this spring raising money for the Riley Children’s Hospital Caring & Sharing Fundraiser. On Friday, Lt. Governor Suzanne Crouch will travel to Highland to acknowledge the student’s efforts and talk about how it will benefit Indiana children. The school also will present the check to a Riley Champion, a local student who is undergoing treatment at Riley.
Numerous community partners also will be in attendance, including  Evansville Chief of Police Billy Bolin, Judge Wayne Trockman, and many others.

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HOT JOBS IN EVANSVILLE

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Office Assistant
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Duties include but not limited to answering phone calls, data entry, scheduling, interacting with customers, over see office functions along with overseeing…
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Picking appropriate cases according to order and placing the orders on carts, picking up empty pallet boards and carrying them to a storage area, loading and…
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May 21

Otters fall 8-4 to Traverse City

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The Evansville Otters dropped the first game of a three-game series against the Traverse City Beach Bums 8-4 at Wuerfel Park on Friday evening.

After leaving two runners on in the first, Traverse City struck for the first run of the game in the bottom of the second inning. Donald Glover Jr. singled to right which scored Steve Lohr to put the Beach Bums up 1-0.

Jeff Gardner tied the game for the Otters in the fourth when he hit a solo home run to right, his third of the year.

The Beach Bums immediately retook the lead in the bottom of the inning when Arby Fields singled home a run to give Traverse City a 2-1 lead.

The Beach Bums opened the game up with three runs in the fifth. Steve Lohr singled home a run and was then brought on home on a two-run home run for Isaac Benard, his first of the season.

Traverse City added two more in the sixth, one coming home on a throwing error by Otters pitcher Garrett Harris and the second on a groundball double play.

The Beach Bums added another run in the seventh to take a seven-run lead. An RBI groundout from Fields brought home Lohr for the eighth Beach Bums run of the game.

The Otters closed the gap in the top of the eighth when Travis Harrison hit a three-run homer, his second of the season, to make it an 8-4 game.

That was as close as the Otters would get however, as reliever Kris Goodman shut the door on the Otters to secure the 8-4 victory for Traverse City.

Tyler Vail is handed his first loss of the season after giving up five runs, two earned, in five innings of work. Vail struck out seven and walked one as well.

Jordan Desguin records his second win of the year as he threw seven innings of one-run baseball. Desguin struck out four and walked three while allowing only three hits.

The Otters will face off against the Beach Bums again on Saturday at 7:05 ET from Wuerfel Park.

For the second game of the series the Otters will trot out Austin Nicely for his third start of the season. The southpaw is 1-0 with a 0.90 ERA in 10 innings with five strikeouts this year.

Nicely will be opposed by Adam Cornwell for Traverse City. Cornwell has appeared in three games for Traverse City this year making two starts. The righty is 0-1 with a 6.23 ERA in 13 innings this season.

Coverage of the game will be broadcast on WUEV 91.5 FM with Sam Jellinek(play-by-play) on the call.

The Otters will return home for a three-game series May 30-31 against the Florence Freedom. Wednesday, May 30 will be a doubleheader, starting at 5:05 p.m. and is Deaconess Hospital Skilled Nursing Facility Night. The series finale on May 31 starts at 6:35 p.m. and will be the first Thirsty Thursday of the season with special price drafts.

 

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Vanderburgh County Recent Booking Records

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