With many families struggling during the recession, Pasco deputies delivered an extra 100 food baskets during the annual Holiday Food Drive this week. ...more

December 26, 2009

Pasco County school officials and emergency agencies joined forces Friday morning to practice for a scenario they would prefer not to face - a school bus accident with a dead driver and injured students. ...more

March 28, 2009

Pasco County school officials and emergency agencies joined forces this morning to practice for a scenario they would prefer not to face – a school bus accident with a dead driver and injured students. The emergency and school personnel, assisted by 40 student volunteers, played out the mock accident in a Gulf High School parking lot where a day earlier they had turned an out-of-commission school bus on its side to help set the stage. Lt. Brian Prescott, who supervises school resource officers for the Pasco County Sheriff's Office, said it was important to run the drill to improve the chances things move smoothly when a real accident happens. ...more

March 27, 2009

Columbine changed everything. During a seminar for school administrators today at Crews Lake Middle School, Pasco County Sheriff's Lt. Brian Prescott emphasized how everything from law-enforcement response to the ways schools handle crisis situations was altered by the 1999 massacre in Littleton, Colo. The presentation was attended by about 20 administrators from around the school district. "We used to set up a perimeter" if there was a shooter inside a school, said Prescott, who supervises the school district's school resource officers for the sheriff's office. "Now, it's entirely different. If there's a shooter in here, we'll be coming in, charging in." ...more

March 24, 2009

We know that gangs cannot exist without members, and that they prey upon and recruit vulnerable children. ...more

March 18, 2009

In response to a Jan. 4 attack on four youths, a gang-awareness workshop is scheduled for Tuesday night at Newsome High School, said Debbie Edwards, president of the school's Parent Teacher Student Association. ...more

March 12, 2009

With dancers, singers, a band, skits, laughs, cheers plus a host and plenty of special guests, this celebration had all the ingredients for a television variety show. ...more

February 6, 2009

With the need greater than ever, Pasco deputies and their community allies stepped up their efforts to supply holiday food baskets to needy families. "We went from 400 baskets last year to about 440 this year," Cpl. Dan Dede from the Sheriff's Office citizens support services group announced. He hopes to collect even more next year. ...more

December 27, 2008

They prey on motorists who leave their cars unlocked while they run in to a day care or school for just a couple of minutes. ...more

December 17, 2008

Eight students were arrested after a fight at Dunedin High School this afternoon, according to the Pinellas County Sheriff's Office. ...more

December 16, 2008