I just don’t understand why a deputy on sight is tasked with evaluating the guy. Clearly they know the kid was a problem or he wouldn’t have been referred to the deputy on site.
It just makes no sense at all, as far as evaluation goes. If they were notifying him (giving him a heads up) so he’d be able to know something about the problematic kid, fine, but he’s not the person who should be doing a psych evaluation.
This is so lame > IMO.
Whoever referred the kid to the deputy, should have been referring him to someone for a psych interviews and evaluations for other special programs.
He doesn’t seem to have been a candidate for general population at a normal school.
He probably belonged in a special ed program with very close supervision and almost constant re-evaluations to see if he was progressing to a ignition point.
If he was, he should have been put in some sort of lock down.
Many people had contact with Nik. at school and through BSO. His last year at MSD, he had 25 disciplinary write-ups in the first semester before they finally expelled him. The SRO was not conducting a pych. eval. He was supposed to be assessing the risk from Cruz and writing a report.
He was likely involved with dealing with him already. Cruz was bringing knives to school and selling them from his lunchbox. (Arrest him!)
His ex-gf told the school he wouldn’t quit stalking her. Lopez said, ‘He would hit her. He would threaten her. He would threaten her family and friends for talking to other guys.’ (Arrest him!)
Cruz was a candidate for reform school and did not belong in the general population.
DCF had assessed him, but he was never Baker Acted -which is easy to do in FL and should have happened at his home based on his behavior.
Here’s a news clip regarding what was happening to the special education students in Broward:
The school district’s special-ed department has been under heightened scrutiny after an independent consultant’s report in late May (2015) found 110 areas of weakness.
The report showed the special-ed student-to-teacher ratio was much higher in Broward than neighboring counties, millions of dollars went unspent that could have funded specialists and technicians, teacher training was inadequate and special-needs children had longer bus rides than other students.
Some parents have expressed frustration in the past few years about the way the department operates. Members of the district’s ESE Advisory Council have been critical...
A disproportionate share of complaints to the state are from Broward County, the report by Tallahassee-based Evergreen Solutions showed.
There’s about 32,000 spec-ed students in Broward county.