In the wake of the Parkland School shooting, Orange County is taking steps to protect its students.

On Wednesday, Orange County's Police Advisory Board joined with the County Executive to recommend five policies they would like each school district to consider. Those include having armed officers at schools; having schools compare and share best practices among the districts; an internal school safety group; having local police, county sheriffs or state police analyze schools to point out safety recommendations; and adding data sharing programs like MutualLink, which the county has in place.

That system would allow the county to use the school's cameras. The county would only have access to the cameras if an official like a principal or head of security reports an incident to the system.

County Executive Steve Neuhaus says he wants to help districts implement these ideas, but did acknowledge that financial challenges involved. For policies that would cost money, like MutualLink and armed officers, the county is eyeing Albany to help schools implement the policies. 

The Police Advisory Board will meet with districts again next school year.