so matthew we let we took a break and we we got you back on tell us more about the project that you founded

yeah so um my background's in leadership um i was a leadership consultant really helping a lot of other people run their businesses i've worked in the security industry for close to about 20 years and after the events of uvalde that's kind of where everything got real especially for people here in texas My wife's an elementary school teacher, so school safety hits really close to home.

So for a lot of parents, yeah, they're concerned about school safety while their kids are in school, and then they're not as concerned about it after their kids graduate.

by and large but this is uh this is something that's never going to go away for for me this is always going to be something that i've got to worry about so i founded a allegiance project foundation as a solution uh to two major issues that this the state was facing after the events of uvalde so lawmakers in austin did what they do best they pass new laws and mandates uh Things that every school needs.

So emergency operations plans, multidisciplinary threat assessment teams, active shooter policies and armed personnel on site.

And I thought for a moment, they're finally getting serious about this.

This is going to change.

But even after they graduate, how do you handle that?

'Cause w- so from your perspective, you know, Monday morning quarterbacking type stuff, what, what do you think was the fundamental breakdown there overarching?

The, the big breakdown came in training with law enforcement and then available training for schools on what to do in an active shooter event, and then schools knowing what's in their EOP, having the right protocols and policies in place, SOPs, so that way every staff member understands why it's important to keep lock- you, you know, block doors.

Mm-hmm.

Like, we've already solved these problems in these other areas, and we partner with people that will help minimize their costs for normal things like IT support, um, uh, you know, uh, merchant services or any kind of licensing for their- their tech stuff.

So we partner with people to be able to bring them in and assess where the school is- is paying money for X, Y, and Z-