Senate candidate for the 27th District and former school superintendent Bill Robertson is applauding the efforts of the Lake County Sheriff on school safety.
“Safety in our schools and for our children has been the No. 1 priority of mine as a school superintendent and I am glad to know the sheriff is implementing new plans to ensure safety measures continue to be maximized for our students, teachers and staff,” Robertson said.
John Idleburg, the first African American sheriff in Lake County history, has just under 100 days in office and is already restructuring the system of command to provide in-house personnel opportunities at key jobs while also making the command staff more diversified, which he said has boosted morale, according to a recent Chicago Tribune article.
“We evaluated certain staff that we had, and we realized there was potential there within the rank of people with skills, background and qualifications to be promoted,” Idleburg said.
Idleburg also provided statements to the Chicago Tribune that he has plans to implement a new initiative for Fremont School District 79 in coordination with the sheriff's office through which responding officers would be provided with real-time information from dispatchers using the school’s own surveillance cameras in the case of an active shooter.
The Lake County sheriff said his officers are trained and ready to respond to immediate threats, NBC Chicago reported.
Robertson is an educator who has worked as a superintendent of schools, school board president, professor and teacher, according to his website. He has served as superintendent of Fremont School District 79 and Creston CCSD 161. Since 2015, he has also served as an adjunct professor of school law at Concordia University Chicago and has a doctorate degree in education in school leadership from the same university, Concordia University Chicago, apart from his master's degree in school leadership and in teaching from Rockford University.
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