Gary L. Sigrist, Jr.

K-12 School Safety

Specialties & Experience of this Expert Witness

Additional Information

Mr. Sigrist has more than four decades of continuous professional engagement with K-12 schools — first as a classroom teacher, then as a district-level Safety Director, and for the past decade as the founder and Chief Executive Officer of a school-safety consultancy that serves school districts across the United States and internationally. He has held concurrent service as a sworn law-enforcement officer since 1990, providing him with practitioner-level perspective on both sides of the school-police interface. Mr. Sigrist holds a Bachelor of Science in Elementary Education from Ohio University and a Master of Science in Education Administration from the University of Dayton, and is a graduate of the Central Ohio Peace Officer's Training Academy. He has taught school safety and public-safety management at the university level for more than a decade as an Adjunct Professor at Franklin University, and he serves on the Editorial Advisory Council of Campus Safety Magazine, a leading professional publication for school and campus safety practitioners. His specialized training in school safety includes certification as an A.L.I.C.E. Trainer, a Civilian Response to Active Shooter Events (CRASE) Instructor, a Single Officer Response to Active Threats (SORAT) responder, a FEMA Multi-Hazards for Schools Trainer, and a Law Enforcement Active Shooter Emergency Response (LASER) Trainer, supplemented by formal training in school-violence threat assessment, hostage negotiation, critical-incident stress management, juvenile sex-crime investigation, and the National Incident Management System / Incident Command System across many FEMA / EMI ICS-series courses.