Education officials, law enforcement officers and school safety professionals from across Georgia are gathering in Savannah this week for the 2026 Georgia School Safety and Homeland Security Conference.
The conference, hosted by the Georgia Emergency Management and Homeland Security Agency in partnership with the Georgia Department of Education, is focused on sharing best practices and implementing new school safety requirements passed by the Georgia Legislature in 2025.
Homeland Security’s Linda Criblez said one of the biggest topics of discussion is a new requirement designed to speed up the transfer of student records between schools…