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Orlando, Florida – Since the Karkland High School shootout, the chosen managers in Florida have undertaken to implement proactive measures, which makes the state a “blueprint” to prevent mass shootings.

Her legal and legislative work was seen at the first Florida National Summit for School Security, where law enforcement agencies and school officers from 20 different countries came together with a goal – to share best practice in school security.

Fox News Digital spoke to Ryan Petty, who lost his 14-year-old daughter Alaina at the 2018 shootouts at the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida. Petty announced how Florida prevents mass shootings and what other states can learn.

“We have had school security calculations every year since the Parkland tragedy,” he said. “So we do a lot of things here in Florida, and we wanted to share this draft with the rest of the country. So we invited states from all over the nation, and we all learn from each other. And hopefully we will help each other to solve this problem.”

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Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, on February 13, 2021. (Matias J. Ocner/Miami Herald/Tribune News Service via Getty Images)

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Ryan Petty, whose 14-year-old daughter Alaina was killed in Parkland High School in the Parkland High School 2018, says Fox News Digital: “As we protect our nation's schools, the answer that JD Vance said was much more precisely what Tim Walz said.” (Joe Raedle/Getty Images)

Alaina Petty was one of the 17 people who were killed on the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School on February 14, 2018. Sagittarius Nikolas Cruz, a 19-year-old former school at the school, opened the fire on students and employees, killed 17 people and injured 17 more. The victims included 14 students and three employees.

“They say time heals all wounds, but it is now seven years and it is still the first to think about in the morning when I wake up, and it is often the last thing I think of before I go to sleep,” he said.

“That's why this mission is so important. I know that my daughter Alaina is proud of me that other students are protected from a danger that I don't understand,” he said.

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At the Florida National Summit on School Safety, the state worked to improve school safety in Florida after the shootings in Parkland, Florida High School in 2018, in which 17 was killed. (Sarah Rumpf-White/Fox News Digital)

The educational commissioner of Florida, Manny Díaz Jr.

“The tragedy of Parkland is an example of where everything went wrong and where there were failures in advance,” he told Fox News Digital. “There were several leakage that this could have been stopped. So it was a complete mistake across the board, so that we could learn from this incident.

“And we were not only able to introduce these preventive measures with the threat assessment, but we have now also developed into threat management. If we take a student into this process, we monitor this student to ensure that they receive services to avoid a crisis,” he said.

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He announced that the Florida officials “hardened” their schools by creating individual entry points, updating technology and having the police or additional legal guardians who are trained to prevent on campus shootings.

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Díaz said that in all the past mass shootings in the United States there was always a crisis point.

“With all these shootings, we know that there was leakage, but there is also the ability if you have things right to prevent this, even after everything else has failed,” he said.

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A monument is carried out outside the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, where on February 19, 2018 17 students and faculties in Parkland, Florida, were killed. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert, file)

Utah has made notes on how Florida rose from the Parkland tragedy. Matt Pennington, the security chief in Utah at the Ministry of Public Security, said that they had the legislation in Florida “parallel”.

Pennington told Fox News Digital that Utah's legislative committee takes proactive steps to prevent a tragedy before it happens.

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“Some of the Parkland parents came to our legislative period and talked to the legislators about their experiences, their effects and how they influenced them in their lives,” he said. “And it really only drove home if they have people who are victims and their children lost their lives due to violence at school.

“It is really important that we are preceded by this in Utah and hopefully have no attack.”