DES MOINES, Iowa — Des Moines Public Schools (DMPS) has announced new school safety measures for the 2024-25 academic year.

The news comes less than two weeks after a school shooter in Georgia killed two students and two teachers. There have also been multiple school threats in the Des Moines metro area over the past few weeks as well.

"We're looking to bring some consistency on both the use of the language around how schools might respond to an event outside the ordinary, and then most importantly how they respond to those events," said DMPS Communications Director Phil Roeder. "A lot of it is small things but they can be very important things."