There was limited online active shooter training for employees in the Capitol Visitor Center, but the rest of the agency was not included.

One focused on how teams would run initial surveys to assess damage after an incident. Failla wrote in his report.īecause of COVID-19, the AOC was limited in its ability to conduct training but shifted to virtual sessions and held two agencywide exercises in 2020.

“We received information from AOC employees that some AOC staff did not know what protective actions to take while inside of the Capitol building as events unfolded on January 6,” Architect of the Capitol Inspector General Christopher P. In her interview, Sarah Groh, who serves as chief of staff for Massachusetts Rep. The Massachusetts Congressional delegation gave an interview with The Boston Globe in which they recounted their fear during the Capitol insurrection last Wednesday. Pressley and Pressley’s husband barricaded her office entrance. Further, the agency lacked consistent, integrated emergency preparedness training with the other legislative branch organizations working in the Capitol. The panic buttons had been there previously, Sarah Groh said. Sarah Groh, her chief of staff, said she, Rep. Ayanna Pressley, D-Mass., were removed, without explanation, some time before a pro-Trump mob stormed the Capitol last week, according to her. The flash report, released April 27, found Architect of the Capitol plans and emergency management training did not sufficiently address situations involving active shooters and civil disturbances and the existing emergency policies regarding those events were not updated. Panic buttons in the congressional office of Rep. 6, some Architect of the Capitol employees did not know what protective actions to take, a result of several emergency preparedness shortcomings highlighted by the agency’s inspector general. As violent rioters breached the Capitol on Jan.

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