More than a week before the recent incidents at high school basketball games -- the shooting of North Lawndale star Jermaine Winfield in a parking lot after the Phoenix played ACT Charter at Collins on Tuesday, a gym-clearing fight at Bogan, which hosted Simeon the same day, and another brawl Thursday at the North Lawndale-Marshall game -- Calvin Davis, director of sports administration for the Chicago Public Schools, sent a letter to every principal and athletic director about sportsmanship and security.
Davis noted that ''each individual sporting event is required to have a security plan in place.''
Among the points in Davis' sample plan:
• Athletic-event staff members should wear bright-colored jackets or shirts that say ''Security'' or ''Crowd Control.''
• Entrances and exits must be manned and monitored.
• Crowd-control staff must be positioned to cover all four corners around the event.
• Only students of the host school are allowed to attend.
• Uniformed cheerleaders from visiting schools must have an adult chaperone.
• Parents should be allowed to attend at the principal's discretion.
• Outside students should not be allowed to attend.
• Host school staff must have access to a telephone at the event.
• Washrooms and concession areas must be monitored.
• Limit spectator attendance so it does not exceed the capacity of the facility.
• Restricted areas should be locked and visibly monitored by staff.
• Visiting teams must be escorted to their buses at the end of the contest.
• Make sure students exit the facility in an orderly manner.
• Security gates, metal detectors and hand wands, which are not mandatory, are necessary and should be used at all events if possible.
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This is a damn shame. Period.
Via: The Chicago Sun-Times
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