Notification Message
Parent and guardians may be notified by a student’s school or the Everett School District with one or more of the following:

• ParentSquare (phone message, email, and/or text) 
• School or district websites
• Social media: Facebook and Twitter
• In some cases, students may be asked to send a text message with reunification instructions.

In the event of a reunification, students will not be released at their school. You will be provided with instructions and information of the reunification location and process to reunify with your student.

Due to the various natures of the emergency, it may require crisis management and law enforcement and as a result, reunifying with your student may take some time.

Reunification Location
In your Notification Message parents and guardians will be told where to pick up their student.

• Reunification events will require you to pick up your student at a different location than your student’s school. 

Parent, Guardians or Authorized Persons Bring Photo Identification
Parents, guardians or authorized persons need to bring their photo identification to pick up their student.

• Photo Identification allows school staff to verify parents/guardians/authorized persons coming to retrieve their student(s) to ensure safety of student being released.

Reunification Location Student and Parent/Guardian/Authorized Persons Expectations
Students are asked to do the following:

• Wait patiently and quietly at the reunification location
• Refrain from sending additional text messages from the reunification location. Keeping the cellular network working may be important for police and fire department response.

Parents, guardians or authorized persons are asked to do the following:

• If driving, be careful. There may be heavier traffic and responding police and fire department vehicles. Park your car where indicated, and do not abandon cars.
• Go to the Reunification Check-in Area to complete a Reunification Card for each student being requested.
• Please be patient. The reunification process is put in place to protect students and to ensure accountability.

Reunifying with Your Student
Parent/Guardian identification and custody rights are confirmed at the Reunification Check-in Line and Reunification Cards are collected.

• Students are retrieved by school staff.
• Parents/Guardians/Authorized Persons are sent to the Check-out Area.
• Parent/Guardian/Authorized Person identification is checked again before a student is released.
• In some cases, parents/guardians/authorized persons may be asked to meet for further information.

Interviews and Counseling

• In some cases, parents, guardians and authorized persons may be advised that a law enforcement investigation is underway and may be advised that interviews are necessary.
• In extreme cases, parents, guardians and authorized persons may be pulled aside for emergency or medical information.

Events requiring this process could include a crisis at the school or a hazardous materials event.

During emergency events, this organized process protects the safety of the student and provides for an accountable change in custody from school to parent, guardian or authorized person away from the challenges of the local school site.

When a parent/guardian/authorized person can’t immediately go to the reunification site, students will only be released to individuals previously identified as one of the student’s emergency contacts. Otherwise, the school will hold students until parents/guardians/authorized persons can pick up their student. You may add or change emergency contacts during the Annual Student Information Update window at the beginning of the school year. If parents/guardians need to adjust the emergency contacts after the Annual Student Information Form has been submitted or after the district update window has closed, the parent/guardian needs to contact their student’s school to adjust emergency contacts.

There may be instances where a student may not be allowed to remove a vehicle from the parking lot. In this case, parents are advised to retrieve their student. In some circumstances, high school students may be released on their own.