Good evening, I'm Senator David Carlucci wanna Thank you for joining us here tonight every Monday and Wednesday I've been hosting this virtual town halls to discuss the Covid- 19 updates and provide different perspectives on the pandemic. however, tonight's town Hall comes after a weekend of growing unrest in response to a systemic culture of racism that we've seen across our nation and the unjust death of George Floyd and Minneapolis has served as a. Is for ongoing demonstrations that we've seen across the country and really, I think something that's just boiled over that we've seen this, it seems like Groundhog Day where these acts of injustice are played out. we see them on on TV but we know that there's probably far more of these acts of injustice going on that are just never recorded. so we know processing. Is something that needs to be done and I'm just hopeful that everyone that is voicing their rights and their ability to go out and express their frustration and their concern that everyone does it as safely as possible. I've been today I was in on conference with the the Senate Democratic Conference. we do it via Zoom right now and we have been discussing the issues of what we can do to really make. Or that we do not have two systems of Justice in this country that we really recognize the systemic racism that we have throughout society but particularly with law enforcement and we know that our law enforcement officials are trying to do the best job that they can however, we know that the racism knows no boundaries and that it is still in our law enforcement. As well, so we have to do what we can to root that out and make sure that we are coming together and not building a chasm. So I I share the frustration and the anger after viewing that video the other day of George Floyd. It's just impossible to not feel outraged and I share that frustration and I'm hopeful that we're able to lead in New York State and that our nation as well to put in. Reforms that will truly make a difference so and today we on today's virtual town Hall I'm actually joined by two incredible advocates to discuss gun violence in our schools and you know this is something as a father and I know everyone shares this concern and I I have been seeing it over the past few years with just the the. The interns in my office, you can see the sense of concern and the sense of really being scared to be in school. you would see similar to what we've talked about earlier today about you see the Mass shootings happen in our schools and that's something that we just have to really we have to address so in New York State we've taken on gun safety legislation. We have some of the most. Gun safety legislation in the nation and that's something I'm proud of. However, I believe that we have to do more to protect our students, our teachers and all of the staff at our schools to make sure that everyone feels safe because we know that there's no way you can possibly teach effectively and there's no way you could possibly learn effectively if you're scared if you're anxious if you're concerned about your safety. so tonight like always, I encourage all of our viewers to ask a questions please post them in the comment section on the Facebook live and I'll be monitoring them and I'll do my best to get to each of them and and also please remember that my team in the in the district office, even though our office is closed we're working diligently to answer questions to work on your problems so please. Not hesitate to contact me at eight 45623627 again. it's 623627 or send me an email at carlucci. the Email is carlucci at NY Senate dot Gov. Again. That's carlucci at NY Senate dot G. I'm sorry Carlucci at NY Senate dot Gov. that's carlucci at NY Senate dot Gov or dot Gov and also. Visit our website it''s Senator Carlucci dot com and we're also doing text message alerts to receive updates about what's happening with the Covid- 19 What's happening with the reopening? we try to send those texts out text messages out to just keep you updated and you can sign up for our text message updates at by sending the word carlucci to the number 797979 again the. It's carlucci to 797979 to get updates on your phone. we've we're now in the first phase in Rockland and Westchester counties of the reopening and today dentist offices are open they're allowed to see patients that's something that is extremely important because we know that dental care is something that's extremely important and the longer. Unca to the worst situations get but as of right now, we have over 370000 positive cases of covid- 19 statewide. we have a little over 13000 cases in Rockland County and 30 over 33000 cases in Westchester County and very sadly we've now lost over 20 - 3900 people in New York state. Including over 600 people in Rockland and almost 1500 people in Westchester County, so these numbers are grim and we're consistently seeing a decrease in these numbers. Thank goodness but it's it's it's really a reminder that we have to be diligent and I know myself. I you know it's easy to let your guard down and I know I'm guilty of this as well because with the weather getting nice. you know people are starting to come out of their homes. You see your neighbors. maybe a little bit more and it's easy to let your guard down. Don't let it happen. Make sure you're remain diligent. just today I was at the Martin Luther King Center in Spring Valley, where we've been able to open up a testing site and the it looks really good. I was there for the opening and I'm actually gonna be going back on Wednesday to get to do the antibody testing myself but I. Anyone that is showing symptoms to go to get tested. you do not need to make an appointment. you can just show up and that's at the Martin Luther King Center on Bethune Boulevard in Spring Valley and they are open from nine to five every day starting today and on Wednesday, they're gonna start doing the antibody test. so I encourage everyone to take advantage of that and make sure that you are getting tested if you're showing. Of course, and then, if you're curious get the antibody test and this is free of charge at this testing site, so I'm really glad that that's up and running and just remember to stay diligent The governor did an executive order recently requiring you to wear a mask that if you go into a business or if you're out in public but what the governor did here was, he said that a business owner has the right to refuse service or refused you the entry to that that. If you are not wearing a mask, so that's something to keep in mind last week we were I was actually up in Albany we were able to have legislative session I was able to go to the floor of the state, Senate and pass an important bill that I've sponsored that I wrote right when this pandemic was starting to rear, It's ugly head in New York and schools were starting to close and the legislation that I passed last week will gives. The ability to safeguard them from losing losing any state aid because they're not open for a hundred and 80 days. The governor did do an executive order that covered many of the school districts across the state. However, the concern was those school districts that acted out of abundance of caution and close school before that executive order took place. we were very concerned about Eastham Poe I was with the superintendent before The the the Governor announced the executive order and doctor and the superintendent had closed school because they did have some positive cases in the school district and they and they did the right thing by closing early, but we need to make sure that they they get the aid that they rightfully deserve and they need and this will cover other districts as well. So with that, there's obviously much more going on but please visit my website at Senator Carlucci dot com. I wanted to get to our guests cuz we have some great guests tonight. First, I wanna tell you about Jordan Turner Jordan Turner is a teacher at Clarkstown North High School and he's also serve serving as the chair of the Social studies Department and Jordan is the uncle of of Alyssa a bright young woman who lost her life in the Mass shooting in Parkland, Florida at the Stedman Stoneman Douglas High School in 2018 on Valentine's Day and since that tragedy Jordan has really a reason. A fierce has become and I I I even more so I know it was always concerned about this but has really become a fierce advocate for school safety and fighting for the passage of Alisa's law, which is a bill that require a law that would require a silent panic alarms in schools. Alisa's law was enacted in New Jersey last year, and it's currently making its way through the legislative process in New York State and it's been an. To work with him and with Jayden Turner, who's our other guest on tonight and Gina Jaan Turner is a student at Nyack High School and is the daughter of Jordan and is the cousin of Alisa and Jayden and Alyssa had a real strong relationship, obviously his cousins but very close in age and you can imagine the grief and the loss of for the Turner family and losing their relative, Alyssa and has really turned Jayden as. Into a fierce advocate for gun safety and school safety and Jayden and Jordan have been with me up in Albany speaking about this issue and talking to lawmakers about how we have to make the focus not just on gun safety, which obviously is is a top priority for all of us on this on this call tonight but that's school safety needs to taken into consideration. so with that. I like to introduce Jordan and Jayden thanks for being with us tonight. Thank you Senator so maybe I don't know who wants to kick it off but maybe just I always like to go first. I was like Jaden go first she she's better at it. Yes. No well. Jayden. Yeah. Thank you thanks for being with us and Jayden. It's also been on our student advisory Committee and has never shy away from an opportunity about talking about her experience and I just before we start, I wanna thank both of you for turning one of the worst trage. That anyone could endure into something that can really help people and and taking that and making sure that alisa's life is not lost in vain, but that we build upon that to make sure that we prevent this tragedy from happening again. So thank you to Jenny. Thank you tell us a little bit about what's what's going on with alisa's law and you've been working on Right now, Alyssa laws and probably won't get pass for next year because of 19 but I think that being able to work with you on it has been great and seeing how far it came, especially when I got to go to all the couple of months ago or weeks, I don't really know yeah and seeing all the support in the people that I've sponsored the has been great because when. First brought it up to you, I guess in 2019 2018 or 2019 and our first sponsor and it was just your name on it and then we got it into the a sponsoring the Assembly and that's a whole bunch of names on the bill, which has been really great to see. Yeah, it's it's been it's been good to see that progress and how just you know building steadily on it and I think one of the problems we have now and and before before we get to that, maybe we could talk a little bit about what the bill actually does so who wants to take that on and you can start you really the master The Bill you've done research. you've presented it in Albany in a mock session. You presented it paired a news conference. so yeah you take it away. Okay. So. basically a list would be you put silent panic alarms in all schools throughout New York State so that these funds can be pressed similarly to the way that fire alarms work, but they would go directly to law enforcement that was being made in the school building. so no be alerted or as they would in a gel so people would start rushing out into the hallways and. And no one would be alerted or made nervous because of it and law enforcement will be able to react much quicker than they would if somebody had to make a 911 call in a panic situation. And maybe you know the question that I get a lot is about you know you know, tell us a little bit more about what these alarms would look like in terms of silent versus you know like a fire alarm but tell us a little bit more about that and why that's an important part of this legislation, so the reason that they have to be silent is if there's a fire alarm if it made a sound like a fire alarm, It could be confusing and people would start rushing out of their classrooms as they do during a. And obviously, if there's an active shooter in the building, that's not best thing to do, but it can be used in any evacuation emergencies. So if it's weather related to it would allow for students to be not alarmed, especially in younger grades when they don't really know how to react. They're just able to stay inside in their classrooms without being distracted and then as they get older, it's so it will keep. Focused on their class rather than what's going on outside and that eating them inside. It also allows you not to have to think as much so if you hear one sound and that's a fire, you should have. you know what the second sound is. I mean they just stay inside so one of the questions came through on Facebook and they said, but couldn't kids just hit the button to troll the police and and how how would we prevent against that? I think you know as a teacher, I mean, I think it's. Of all most of the schools that have put this in, it's based on the teacher's computer on the teacher's phone things like that. But in theory, every classroom has a fire alarm people could do that you know you can have and I'm not sure I'm not an expert in it. although it's it's a it's a couple of companies out there that do this. they've worked with in Florida where it's on the verge of passing on in Jersey, where it's past, there's pretty much. And you know if anybody wants to to to reach out, you know you talk and thank you for you know saying that we've seized on this tragedy and try to turn into something. but the really the inspiration is my cousin, Lori Elis, his mother and her father Elon, who started in Jaden's wearing and make our school safe shirt. you know I wanna give a shout out to make our school safe, which is Loris Organization. It's a National advocate for school safety and the information on Alyssa Law is all over there as well as on your webpage on the you've got stuff posted and and really Appreciate that you've made this something you know, as Jayden said, you brought it up to Albany and and you know you've helped us secure Assembly sponsor the primary sponsor being Assemblywoman Jaffe, so we absolutely appreciate that. Senator Goff is just North of there. it was active but and right now as Jaan says the politics of Unfortunates hold up in Committee and it seems to have a little smoother path through the Senate Committee. Maybe thank you Senate Education. Really kind of bogged down in the Assembly Education Committee but we have talked to Assembly benetta when he is there's a path through to it. He wants to see some modifications a path through, but it's mostly an app that thing when it first came out, it was very, but now it's more app based to be on a computer things like that. so I mean it really, but it does take people to push and I know you know as long as you're in the Senate, you you'll be pushing for and wanna keep doing it and sometimes these things take a while I also. There's a National version that's been proposed. I think Jayden music congressman who who is it's not it's called Alysia's Act at the federal level and Alyssa is like an acronym for OSU and school safety alert. So yeah. So I mean this is you know everyone's concerned with school safety and if Senator if I could just jump, I'd really appreciate your opening with you know talking about what really is on everybody's mind I think, and I think you'll agree with me on this and I would like that I was doing some prepping for this call. there is a whole component and obviously we're dealing with a very sensitive racial climate right now. Obviously, I mean if you're living under a rock, but even after Parkland, you know there were that we were amazed at the young people both in Parkland and then it extended and people like Jayden took it up, but there was some concern that students of color. Wreck weren't as involved or weren't recognized for their involvement as much and that did create somewhat of a divide and and I think one of the things that has to be remembered is when we look to create school safety, we have to look for at all communities that are involved and while we may need, maybe we need more police in schools, maybe first of all both Jaden and I and people we know not putting guns and teachers hands as a teacher. Please don't put a gun in my hand but We have to look at every community in school and Many of us maybe who grew up around here. We're good with put some police in but african-american students who've have a different experience because people have different experiences may not see that as the same solution in the same way as some other groups and so school safety is a very complicated things and we wanna reduce it to put an alarm and put guns in and you're good. It's a very complicated, but one thing is like putting police in schools. It's not just having a police officer standing in the front of the school is having a police officer that knows the students and it's comfortable walking up and talking to the students and the students are like we'll say hi in the hallway. start up a conversation. so it's not as intimidating as just having a police officer. That's standing there and watching every move that happens and we Stoneman Douglas had a police officer who failed to do his job fail. I mean there's no other word for it that there are, but they're stronger who failed to do his job and he didn't go in so. You have to have well trained police officers who yeah who are can do the job and will Jordan you're video is a little shaky. Is there a way to make it more stable? Probably by just by holding the computer cuz I was probably getting emphatic. you know I sometimes do and and and doing that I'll I'll put it up on a on a on a platform and adjust it there. You go. Okay. That's all it was. Yeah. Oh good. the no, I think what Jayden said is spot on from what I've witnessed that it's really about. Ingratiated with the community and we know right here in Rockland County that we having those school resource officers that it's really not about who exactly what you said. Do you like it's someone just standing at the door is not really gonna do much. It's how you relate to the students how you build that sense of trust and that rapport and we know that there's been crimes that have been solved there have been. Crimes that have been prevented because of that relationship that is formed and that's something that I would really like to see more of that. you have that real sense of community police. you know I was talking to my colleagues in the Senate today from all over the state and talking about you're still going to you're going to the schools and you have young children in inner cities that wanna grow up to be police officers and we need to nurture that and allow that to thrive and I think a way. It becomes more of a reality is that young people have an interaction with the police That's not negative. they have to have those positive responses and I think that is just that's so important in in in developing that relationship and understanding really what's going on. I think you're you're you're spot on that and in New York, where we have such a diverse population, you know every culture every race. Language being spoken in the state, you know it's one of the blessings and one of the the things that makes us such a great state to live in. however, we have to recognize that you know the way that I might perceive law enforcement is different than someone else and that's something I think that we really have to recognize and we have to work extra hard at knocking down those barriers. So so I appreciate that. thank you can we talk I know cuz you guys really know this legislation and the issues you know what are. Talking about in terms of you know what is the threat and what is going on in terms of violence in the schools in terms of Mass shootings? do you guys have numbers on that something that you can tell us about jain's doing research on it for schools. Yeah. I'm actually researching for I take a class called Science research and I'm actually researching school shootings and the media right now. Mm hmm Obviously, school shooting statistics have gone down since we've been in quarantine because we're not in school, but that hasn't really lowered the rate of gun violence. We've because now there's more accidental shootings in homes so kids aren't necessarily safer around guns because they're home rather than in schools, but we haven't seen this big Mass school shootings that make the front page of the news. You know, it's it's one of those things that look on a purely numbers level. You can't just boil it to numbers and obviously you know that's one of the arguments people make is that well, more people are killed by car. I've always found that a species argument like let's not worry about this cuz there's something else is worse. Well, there's always something worse right. you know. it doesn't mean you don't try to solve the problem that we've talked about. There's no solving some of these problems. At this point, there's mitigating and making. But you know the idea that it's a whole. It's gonna be a holistic approach. You know, people say, well. it's a mental health issue, obviously to some extent, but that doesn't mean you also don't try to keep guns out of the hands of people who have mental problems while at the same time getting them treatment. I mean you know why Oh just because one is a salute one. There's one solution that mean there can't be another solution or another thing and I know that you. On the Committee on mental health and you don't go well, this is the only solution we also now, let's not worry about guns. I mean I know you chair the Committee on mental health in the Senate and they have to work together. I mean those are things but if we can limit guns, I mean and not everybody agrees. I'll be there look there are Parkland families who are active in school safety who who are in a war. There are many I would. From my reading more who are not and there are some outspoken opponents clearly of the NRA but definitely if people can't get guns, they can't shoot somebody. I think gun violence prevention is obviously gonna be a controversial issue and we're not gonna change that but protecting the students that have to go to school every day and the staff members that work there. There shouldn't be any controversy that and we should do whatever we can make sure they're safe. Alright. That's a. It's a- one where we obviously we know there's a deep divide in this nation between you know those that think there's you know this how they interpret the Second Amendment and obviously you know I've been fighting to reform the the gun, the gun the gun laws and make it safer and make it harder for people to access these guns that can that can just harm harm more people and you know the studies I actually the last town Hall virtual Town Hall we had was. Activists for domestic violence reforms and we had my sister's place, the CEO and the Center for Safety and Change, and we talked about some of those statistics. I mean one of the statistics was just really alarming the fact that you know home where there's domestic violence and someone owns a firearm someone is 500 times or 500 percent more likely to. KT murdered in that home, then if there wasn't a firearm so obviously just the issue and and you know just elevates the the the the the chance of harm it's just really really disturbing and what Jayden said about you know now that even the school is closed, but you still have this problem where people are getting killed by guns in their home because those those gun. Are around you know one of the things that we had talked about briefly before is about the issue of the the unannounced active shooter drills and you know, is it having what type of impact is it having on students and how do we you know balance the safety with students, mental health and Active shooter drills actually make students safer and I don't know from your research if you are able to comment on that if you've found any information on that, what what could you tell us about the the the new shooter and this isn't a subject that I research I'm mostly research media effects school shootings, but I am working. I work on something with a couple of other students and we were talking about how. different aspects of school safety that revolve around school shootings and one thing that we talked about is there's a lot of perspectives on lockdown drills happen or shouldn't we all agreed that we think lockdown drills should happen and it's the discussion shouldn't be a matter of whether they have or not it should be how they happened because often times even when it's being run properly in half the school. But then you have kids that are walking up and down the hallways. Talking like this is a. On the other half of the school wasn't the Los Angeles basically failed and so I think it's making sure that teachers know how to properly run lockdown drills and also making sure that students know that this is a real threat, and it's not something that joke about. but one thing that I've brought up in my school is we have a universal lunch and what if for at lunch, our school has nothing for us to do. It's not even like a sketch out plan or like in. Well, if you're like kids are walking in between classes, there's just no solution that's been given and then also we I think New York State requires like two lockdown drills a year, and if our school is waiting till two weeks before school ends, it's kind of counter productive because we've been in school year and also we're not practicing in every single classroom. So we don't know what price in my math class won't help me my science class. So I think. We discussed in all your classes, even if you're not having a drill in all of our classes. Yeah good point. I mean there's there's there's little things you can do Lori my cousin talks about you know just putting in and I've done this in my classroom and where you can have a taped off spot from the door you just I did it with a student where I had the student keep moving around and another student stood to where can't you see people cuz one of the keys is to get out of the line of fire and out of line of sight. so you just Mark off. Red tape on the floor that in a in a crisis, this is where money is behind this line, and you know that that can make everybody safer just knowing so it's one less thing you have to think about it in a crisis you just there's the Red line just go behind the Red line and and was you know some Red tape or even White masking tape and you have lines. I mean it's you're not talking to a high price solution. There's something that's pretty low tech but makes perfect sense that may not save every life, but the idea in any of these solutions, the idea of silent alarm. Look there might be some shooting for you, but it gets people there in time saves lives and that's that's kind of the key. It really is and and Lori he's been commenting on our Facebook. so she's watching us and Lori that's Alyssa's mom and she's she's talking about how threat assessments help prevent a threat before it happens. once complete, we can give services to the students to help them meet their needs and I think talking about the mental health aspect And then, she writes. it's important to have a C see something say something app for students to report a threat before it happens and be able to report it and anonymous anonymously and that that seems like it makes a lot of sense and that was something that I was. I wanted to ask you about in terms of we talk you know this is kind of move away from the buttons to more of an app and would it make sense that the students have access to that on their phone Since Loris on there, I mean I know she's I don't know if she wants since Loris on there she she is by far you know, has studied this more than anybody. she probably knows as much as the people who make the apps about the apps out there. so that's sort of a quick answer, so she might be able to. however she's chiming in or you know she might be able to tell you whether that makes some whether there's any studies that make some sense or not well. I think from a student perspective, I think that teachers shouldn't be the only people that access it like I know like. You have an iPhone, you can make an emergency call if even if you can unlock the phone and I think on the teacher's computer, if it should be able to a student can press that button cuz what if the teacher the first one shot in the classroom, it shouldn't be now that there's no way to contact a law enforcement right. It's great point. That's a great point and okay Lori said The panic buttons are for teachers and staff only not for the students and I think. It makes sense in terms of the idea of to say something see something say something at to make sure that the students can report something and do it anonymously. That's 20 - 47, and those apps are 24 seven so you could have you know something happens at five in and you'd find about it right away right away. Yeah. How about at in Clarkstown or in Nyack have you guys seen apps like that? Are using in the in the schools. Naya kass a but a lot of our teachers struggle to figure out how to use it even during drills. I mean nothing that's different during the walk down like I know like it would be really good at if everybody knew how to use it really well because it makes sure every student every staff members accounted for. but the like lack of understanding on how to use the app is obviously an issue. I'm not I can't speak to Clarkson has an app on. Called the 911, I'm on that you can put on phones on computers, It's oriented and oriented. I don't know off hand and that's part of the problem If we do have it if there's a see something say something for the students and and so it's obviously not widely you know widely known but you know that that makes perfect Look. that's no different that see something I mean all over New York City. You know they've got you know that on the subway. Something say something and I mean, it's it's the world we live in and it makes the perfect sense. everybody has to you know just do that and I think partly as a teacher that you have to empower students to do that and not feel like you know and I know Lori Point out Anonymous is better because you're just trying to find out the problem. You're not like you know you're not saying this is the witness in your trial here, but you have to empower students to do that and say this is this is worth doing cuz I think some of these people have kinda known but not said anything and that's that's scary. That's scary. Sometimes it's not putting like two into together until afterwards, but if one student noticed is one thing and then another student, another thing and even if they're completely different but the way back to the same student by somebody some are being able to put those two together and say, Oh, this student really could be a threat and that's what happens to a small detail can make a difference that makes sense. I wanted to you know one of the questions came in is how can they support alisa's law and then I wanted to ask you about the the Wear orange campaign. I know that's something that that you guys have been involved with so maybe if you could you answer both of those questions about how can they help support Alyssa law and maybe some of the campaigns that are going on to build awareness? Yeah. So. Weekend it was started by every town and it was a way for them to honor both victims and survivors of gun violence. so often there's like big events all across the country. I think last year there were hundreds of events. There's one in every single state, including Washington and Washington, DC, and obviously that was the plan again this year. They're doing I know students demand is doing a virtual summit so that's gonna take. On Friday and if you want more information, you can go to every town dot Org but that isn't really make our school safe isn't really connected to gun violence prevention. They mostly just trying to work on school safety. and then what was the question again? Oh, so basically how someone can help us support Alisa's Okay. I take the biggest way to help support this and get it pass would be contacting Senator Shelley Mayer so we can get it out of Committee and put it on and Assemblyman and Assemblyman Mike Benedetto out of the Bronx who's the Assembly. Education Committee chair both to different levels are friendly to the law, but that's only partly partly so those are the two offices Senator mayor at the Westchester and Assemblyman benetta out of the Bronx they chair and for as you know, Senator you know chairs of the committees, you know you can have a great law that everybody agrees with, but the chairs of the Committee have to move it through that. And that and that that becomes essential I just and I know we're we're time. I just quickly say Jayden talk about the two organizations and it often gets conflated. You know every time for school safety and students demand action, which are related. I mean every time for gun every time it's gun violence and then make our schools safe. They're not the same and and the two issues are are they're obviously a crossover but and while Jain's involved in both not everybody is and I think one of the things that stands in the way is people hear Alyssa Law School. And I think this is some sort of fun thing and it's so they they if if they think the NRA they're gonna be against it. This is not I mean Lori. I know it's on there and she'll tell you this is solely about school safety. There's nothing in it about guns. It doesn't take away anybody. It doesn't even try to do anything guns. We may all have different views on guns. That's not the point It's and and I a pitch for the Organization that Jayden is the Nyack her head, but if you or anybody out in your you're listening audience if if people want. Be involved in that they can have students start chapters in any high school. I just go on to make our schools safe webpage reach out. I know Laurie will be excited to have more chapters. most of them in Florida. Jayden start the one in Nyack. That's a great way to be involved and you could get liberals and conservatives gun pro-gun and and whatever it is just to make our school safe and they can all work together and that and that's a good way to do it. Yeah and you guys have there's a virtual run coming up. so maybe you could tell us about that. What's going on with the with the run so I organized a virtual run for school safety. I did it because I'm part of the fellowship with the Religious Action Center. I had to do a project that had to do with social Justice work. so I reached out to Lori and I said I wanna do a virtual run that would raise money for school safety, so she agreed and I worked on setting up a campaign or if you wanna be able to register and registration. Until June fifth, so only a couple more days and I said, I sent out a link. I've been posting on social media. There's been post on my social media and you can sign up and then the weekend of June 20 seventh and June 20 - eight, you can either run or walk either a mile, five K or 10 K, and all the proceeds will go to make our school safe. You'll also get a run for school safety, so you can take pictures in your shirt and post about it to raise awareness. For the Organization. And is this happening just in our area or is this happening at all throughout the country. You can do it anywhere. you wanna do it well and Jayden started it, but we have people all over the country who are doing it. Yeah. Oh great. One of the benefits of you know the the the virtual yeah you can do it anywhere and say I can't. I can't make it. I'm like oh well come on. you can do it anytime that day right? So it's the idea It's gonna be on June 20, seventh and just so or 20 - eight. okay. So you have that option any time during the day, you can do a mile or up to or you can do the six point two miles, which is a 10 K and you can walk it. You can run it and you can do it anywhere. In the country. It's great and it's really building awareness and raising funds for the campaign to make our school safe. I know I see every year at the Turkey Trot and I see it every year at the Turkey truck. So this is just like a Turkey truck, but a nicer weather. absolutely. yeah. I'll I'll definitely do it That'll be good so alright great well. you know I know I've kept you on for a little bit of time, so I don't wanna keep you forever but what would you say in closing? what do you want our? Leave tonight that maybe we haven't said yet. Or you just wanna reiterate if you said it already, I'd say one thing that I think is good when my dad said, just to make clear that like school safety doesn't mean that doesn't mean gun violence prevention and well, I think a lot of school safety where it comes from school shootings. There are a lot of other aspects that students can feel unsafe in schools and school safety works to keep students safe in all aspects, whether it's physical. Emotional and gun laws prevention isn't just in schools. It's all across the country, and it's not just the Mass shootings that we hear about all the time in the news, but it's also an individual shootings. That's great. so this is really you know, it's not just about the Mass shootings. your mission is to keep our children safe from whatever can harm them and I mean that that that takes on many different roles in many different problems, but that's that's that's really that's important to hear and I think that's something that we all need to support because yes, it's not just the Mass shootings. although that's something that we definitely have to just eradicate but all other types. Rats so that's Thank you for doing that. Well, everyone should feel safe and that you know kinda circles back to what you started with. There's a lot of in our society today. There's a lot of people who don't feel safe, but the same reason that other people do feel safe and safety has to and everybody's safety based on race, religion and everything has to be for everybody has to be protected and kept safe. and that's something obviously that's not happening right now, but that we need to keep working towards right. Well, I wanna Thank you both for joining me tonight. I really appreciate your advocacy and really just taking this issue and moving forward on it. it's my hope that we're able to pass Aa's law in New York State and ultimately see it in every state on a federal level because I think this is one of the simple things that we can do to add another level of protection and another level of safety and. If it if it manages to save one person, I think it's well worth it. what I think it'll help and save many more but also to keep that mission at what's what in any way. How can we keep our schools safe? I know as a parent and just talking to he talk to any parent and that's obviously the biggest concern that our children need to be safe. Our teachers need to be safe and everybody working in those schools. we have. Sure, that that is the goal and anything that threatens that we have to attack and we have to use all of our power and influence to push back against so Jaan and Jordan. Thank you so much for your advocacy and look forward to continuing to work with you on this issue and any issue that will keep our schools safe. So also I wanna thank everyone for joining us here tonight as always please stay safe. There we're we're not out of the Woods yet With Covid- 19, let's continue the trajectory that we're on getting lower cases reported and please do remember we now have a new testing clinic over at the Martin Luther King Center in Spring Valley and you can just go there from nine to five Monday through Friday and I actually every day of the week. they'll they'll be open and you can get tested there free of charge. please take advantage of that. I'm gonna be there on Wednesday to get my the antibodies tested. But if you are feeling symptoms then please do go get tested for covid- 19, and please do do remember that even though my office is physically closed, our office remains open for you to use as a resource to let us know any problems that you're facing. we wanna hear about it and we wanna help you so again. I'm Senator David Carlucci. It's an absolute honor and privilege to serve you in the New York State Senate and again I wanna thank Jayden and Jordan Turner. Advocacy and for being with us here tonight, Stay safe. Thank you guys. Bye.