Michael D. Andreas, the current director of Safety, Security and Emergency Management with Sarasota County Schools has been promoted to the position of executive director, effective immediately. He will be responsible for the formation and long-term implementation of the Department of Public Safety, which will include the Sarasota County Schools Police Department and the operations command center, among other functions. An Army veteran and former police officer, Andreas has served with the school district since 2016. Before joining the school district, he was responsible for numerous state and local security programs and initiatives, and served as director of the Graduate School of Homeland Security Studies at Endicott College in Massachusetts, where he was responsible for leading the faculty and designing the program’s homeland and domestic security programs. During his career, Andreas has served on numerous federal, state and local task forces, including the FBI’s Joint Terrorism Task Force, the U.S. Attorneys Massachusetts Anti-Terrorism Task Force and Governor Mitt Romney’s Criminal Justice Transition Team. Andreas also served on the Salem Massachusetts Police Department.

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