Keynote Speaker
OSROA is honored to welcome Jill Lemond as the keynote presenter for the 2026 conference. Jill is a dynamic and mission-driven leader on the Evolv Technology team, where she serves as Head of Education. In the wake of the tragic school shooting in Oxford, Jill felt called to expand her impact beyond a single district and work toward meaningful, nationwide change. She joined Evolv because of its clear mission to keep weapons out of schools and protect learning environments across the country.
With more than 15 years of experience in education—including over twelve years with Oxford Community Schools—Jill has served in multiple leadership roles, including ESL and International Programs Coordinator, Director of International Operations, and Assistant Superintendent of Safety & School Operations. As a school administrator who lived and worked through the Oxford tragedy, she brings a deeply personal and professional perspective to school safety, crisis response, and long-term recovery.
At the conference, Jill will provide insight into the events surrounding the Oxford school shooting and share powerful lessons learned from leading during and after an unimaginable crisis. Her message will focus on preparedness, collaboration between school leaders and law enforcement, and the critical importance of comprehensive safety planning that prioritizes both physical security and emotional well-being.
Jill holds a Bachelor of Arts in English/Language Arts Teacher Education and TESOL from Michigan State University and an MBA from Capella University. She has extensive school safety training and certifications, is an active member of the Bureau Consortium, and serves on the advisory council for ZeroNow.
Jill is unwavering in her commitment to safer school communities. She believes effective safety planning must involve all stakeholders—educators, law enforcement, families, and students—and must integrate prevention, training, implementation, and continuous improvement. Emergency preparedness is truly a matter of life and death, and she passionately advocates for schools where students and staff can focus on learning in environments that are secure, supportive, and resilient.
OSROA is proud to welcome our friend, Detective Richard Wistocki (Ret.), back to our School Safety Conference. Rich will open the conference with a powerful general session designed for all attendees focused on one of the most urgent challenges facing schools today: identifying, investigating, and preventing threats of violence before they escalate.
When threats of school violence appear online - especially when there is “leakage” targeting specific students or staff - every minute matters. In his opening session, Rich will outline what school officials and law enforcement must do immediately to secure critical information, preserve digital evidence, and ensure proper due process. He will explain how investigators use Exigent Circumstances protocols to obtain time-sensitive information, identify perpetrators quickly, and disrupt potential acts of violence.
Following the general session, Rich will conduct three in-depth breakout sessions specifically for law enforcement personnel. These hands-on trainings will focus on investigative strategies, digital evidence collection, legal considerations, and practical tools officers can use immediately in their jurisdictions. Attendees should bring their laptops for these interactive, application-based sessions.
Detective Wistocki served 30 years in law enforcement, including 28 years with the Naperville Police Department. For 22 of those years, he worked as an Internet Crimes Investigator, specializing in cyber investigations and online threats. He also served 22 years as a SWAT operator and sniper.
Rich is a founding and affiliate member of the Illinois ICAC Task Force and serves as an instructor for the U.S. Department of Justice and numerous law enforcement Mobile Training Units and POST academies nationwide. He is the architect behind several significant pieces of legislation in Illinois, including the Illinois Sexting Law, Swatting Law, Child Exploitation Online Law, and the SRO mandatory certification law.
He currently serves as one of the cyber trainers for the National Association of School Resource Officers (NASRO) and continues his service as a Reserve Deputy Sheriff with the Putnam County Sheriff's Office, assisting with cyber investigations.
With decades of frontline experience in cybercrime, school safety, and tactical operations, Detective Wistocki brings unmatched expertise, urgency, and practical insight to the OSROA conference. His sessions will equip attendees with the knowledge and tools needed to act decisively, lawfully, and proactively when threats emerge—helping protect students, staff, and communities.
Anastasiya is a seven-time Emmy Award–winning journalist and the founder of ViKSTORY Media LLC, with more than 25 years of experience covering crime, courts, mass shootings, school violence, and law-enforcement response across the country. A trusted former investigative reporter in Colorado and Texas, Bolton has spent much of her career on the front lines of critical incidents—standing alongside law-enforcement leaders during rapidly evolving, high-stakes moments that demanded clarity, credibility, and compassion.
Her lived experience reporting on officer-involved incidents, active-shooter events, and school safety crises directly informs the practical, scenario-based training she now delivers to law-enforcement agencies, School Resource Officers, and public-safety professionals nationwide. Bolton understands the unique pressures officers and SROs face when communicating with students, parents, staff, media, and the broader community—often simultaneously, and often with incomplete information.
Today, Bolton specializes in helping law-enforcement professionals communicate effectively in a shrinking media landscape, where misinformation spreads quickly and trust is fragile. Her training emphasizes clear messaging, information timing, word choice, and on-camera presence, with a focus on skills participants can apply immediately—during daily interactions, school-based incidents, and major critical events. Her approach is direct, realistic, and rooted in respect for the mission, the profession, and the communities officers serve.
Critical Response Group, America’s most trusted provider of indoor mapping solutions, provides simple visual communication and collaboration tools to coordinate emergency response both outside and inside a building. CRGs enhance response time and improve command and control during an incident through common language and unified points of reference between internal teams and response units. Our solutions, validated by thousands of real-world incidents, are deployed across the United States to protect schools, businesses, hospitals, and other critical infrastructure. Our team of former military Special Operations veterans and retired public safety executives ensure the solution is fully implemented into preexisting software platforms used by public safety. crgplans.com
CRG is a 2025 DIAMOND level sponsor
PACE was formed in 2006 by the Oregon School Boards Association (OSBA) and the Special Districts Association of Oregon (SDAO). These organizations work together to keep Oregon students safe, reduce risks and conserve member resources. No one can match the expertise and decades of experience that OSBA and SDAO bring to property-casualty coverage for local public entities, and their property and liability risk pool of school entities in the state - the largest in Oregon, with more than 200 education organizations.
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Oregonians Credit Union is a team of individuals who live and work in the same communities as you do, and they exist to serve you. They're not a bank. They are a member-owned not-for-profit financial co-op. Every dollar invested by members is reinvested in members in the form of lower loan rates, higher deposit rates, low fees, and great service. oregonianscu.com
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Safer Schools Together is a global leader in school violence prevention, supporting school districts, law enforcement, and community partners with proven strategies to create safe learning environments. Our expert team helps identify and manage threats - including violence, suicide, and radicalization - through best practices in Safety/Threat Assessment. Regardless of where technology takes us, it’s the staff, students, caregivers, and agency partners who will always be the best app to ensure safe and caring school communities. saferschoolstogether.com
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OSROA is proud of our continuing partnership with the National Association of School Resource Officers. As a chartered state organization under the NASRO banner, we share their vision of safer schools and safer kids and believe we can accomplish that with law enforcement officers who are carefully selected, specifically trained and properly equipped for the SRO position. NASRO is supporting our conference with a generous grant. nasro.org
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