page_title: Andrew Pollack
section_title: Meadow Pollack
hierarchical_section_title: Andrew Pollack / Personal life and family / Meadow Pollack
caption_attribution_description: English: Andrew Pollack, his wife and others meeting with President Trump discussing school safety measures.
context_page_description: Andrew Scot Pollack is an American author, school safety activist, and entrepreneur whose daughter Meadow was killed in the Stoneman Douglas High School shooting in 2018.
  Pollack is credited with helping to pass the "Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School Public Safety Act". He has met with President Donald Trump and his cabinet, Florida governor Rick Scott, and many lawmakers. Pollack is actively fighting to release more federal funding to increase school security in every school across the nation. He believes that bulletproof glass, metal detectors, enhanced door lock systems, ID checkpoints, and "school marshals" can help prevent school shootings.
  On September 10, 2019, Pollack released his book, Why Meadow Died: The People and Policies That Created The Parkland Shooter and Endanger America's Students, alongside education expert and senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute, Max Eden.
  Pollack spoke at the 2020 Republican National Convention.
context_section_description: Meadow Jade Pollack (October 5, 1999 – February 14, 2018) was the daughter of Andrew Pollack and Shara Kaplan. She was named after Meadow Soprano, a character on The Sopranos. A senior at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, she was murdered in the February 14, 2018 shooting. Meadow was shot nine times and had attempted to avoid the shooter while struggling to get into a classroom. Teachers and students were not able to open the classroom door. Her father told CBN that as the shooter returned, Meadow covered another student (who died in the shooting) in an attempt to protect her. She was then shot five more times, killing her and the other student she shielded, Cara Loughran, a freshman.
  Meadow's death prompted her father to found Meadow's Movement, a movement fighting for increased school security to prevent future school massacres.
  Meadow had planned to attend Lynn University in the fall and spoke about becoming a lawyer.
caption: Pollack and his wife, sitting alongside President Trump and others.
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