President and CEO of the National Alliance for Safe Schools
President of NASS since the organization was established in 1977, Pete Blauvelt has assumed a national leadership role in the field of school security. He served as president and Chairman of the Board of Directors for the National Association of School Security Directors (now the National Association of School Safety and Law Enforcement Officers) for eight years.
Pete started his career in law enforcement in 1961 serving as a patrolman on the Washington D.C. Metropolitan Police Department. After rising to the rank of Detective, he left the force in 1967 to return to the University of Maryland where he completed his BA program in Criminology and Sociology, graduating in 1968. He then became a special agent for the Naval Investigative Service and served for three years before resigning to become the Director of Security for the Prince George’s County Public Schools in Maryland. He served in that capacity from 1971 to November 1994 when he retired and took over the daily operation of NASS.
Since his retirement, Pete has crisscrossed this country, as well as Canada, Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands and Bermuda, delivering workshops and conducting school security assessments. He averages over ninety workshops per year that involve thousands of educators and law enforcement personnel. Despite his busy schedule, Pete has found the time to write five books and a CD, his latest, Making Schools Safe for Students.
In constant demand for interviews both by the print as well as radio and television, Pete has appeared on The Today Show, Good Morning America, various news broadcasts on CNN, NBC, CBS, and ABC. He has also appeared on Night Line, Montel Williams Show,and Geraldo Rivera Show. He has testified before the U.S. Congress on issues affecting schools' safety.
Pete also serves as a legal expert in litigation involving violence occurring on school property.
In his copious free time, he has been known to slice a golf ball or two into the woods.
