About
Dr. Kenneth S. Trump provides school security expert witness and litigation consulting services for plaintiff and defense attorneys engaged in PreK-12 school safety cases. With over 40 years of experience in school security, Dr. Trump offers authoritative insights into incidents involving school violence, negligence, liability, and safety protocol failures.
Ken is experienced as a school security expert witness on mass school shootings, school active shooter and other wrongful deaths, violent assaults with serious injuries, rape and other sexual assaults, and other school crime, violence, security, crisis/emergency preparedness.
Ken provides school security expert witness services to attorneys involved in state and federal court litigation, mediation, arbitration, and legal counsel guidance to public, charter, and private independent schools. He is an experienced speaker, teacher, news commentator and personal communicator on school safety, security, and emergency preparedness issues.
Ken served as an officer, investigator and gang unit supervisor for the Cleveland City Schools’ safety division, and as a suburban school security director and assistant gang task force director. During his 40 years in school safety he trained and consulted with school and public safety officials from 50 states and internationally.
Ken earned a Doctor of Education (Ed.D.) degree from Johns Hopkins University. Ken earned Master of Public Administration and Bachelor of Social Services (Criminal Justice Concentration) degrees from Cleveland State University, and has more than 2,500 hours of specialized training. He is the author, co-author and/or editor of three books, five book chapters and 450 articles on school safety. He appears regularly in national and international news.
Ken is a four-time invited Congressional witness on school safety and emergency preparedness, and testified on bullying to the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights. He has presented to the Sandy Hook Advisory Commission, Oklahoma Commission on School Safety, Education Commission of the States, Council of State Governments, FBI National Academy, National Lieutenant Governors Association, National Governors Association, Department of Defense Education Activity, National School Boards Association, and many other education and public policy organizations.