In the emotional weeks after the shootings at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn., in December 2012 that left 20 first graders and six faculty members dead, Gov. Dannel P. Malloy assembled 16 experts — emergency workers, psychiatrists, trauma specialists, teachers, a pediatrician, a mayor — to examine the event.
Look at gun violence, school safety and mental health, Mr. Malloy instructed the members of the Sandy Hook Advisory Commission. Tell us how to make sure this never happens again.
The commission completed its detailed recommendations in February and plans to deliver its report to the governor on Friday.
At the commission’s first meeting, a guest speaker, former Gov. Bill Ritter Jr. of Colorado, who served on a panel formed to examine the 1999 Columbine school shootings, warned members that the mission would take a toll. “There’s no doubt that this will have an impact on your lives, and some of that impact can be very difficult, quite frankly,” he said.
Only two of the commission members had longstanding ties to Newtown. Christopher Lyddy grew up there and was Newtown’s representative to the State Legislature at the time of the shootings. Ron Chivinski teaches social studies at Newtown Middle School.
[For more of this story, written by Kristin Hussey, go to http://www.nytimes.com/2015/03...ype=article&_r=0]
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