Security for this year’s Emmy Awards will be at an elevated level after the assassination of Charlie Kirk last week, according to a person with knowledge of the plans.
The person, who spoke Sunday on the condition of anonymity to discuss security, made clear that safety was always a top concern of the television academy, that the planning had been meticulous and that a robust plan was in place.
Maury McIntyre, the president and chief executive of the Television Academy, told Variety on Thursday morning the he and other officials had re-examined their security plans after the shooting and spoken to law enforcement agencies in preparation for the event.
“We’re absolutely re-looking at all of our security plans, but we always have a very robust security plan in place,” McIntyre said.
He went on: “I know that basically once things happened yesterday, our security personnel all gathered together to just recheck things like that — sitting with the L.A. Police Department, sitting with our Department of Transportation, just to make sure that we felt buttoned up. We are confident in the plans we’ve got in place.”
A spokeswoman for the Los Angeles Police Department said last week that the department would not discuss its security measures for special events, but she made clear that the authorities would be sufficiently deployed and prepared for the Emmys.
Matt Stevens is a Times reporter who writes about arts and culture from Los Angeles.
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