San Bernardino Center’s Staff Return to Work After Shooting

Donaciano Meza, a program manager, said he and many others would be thinking of the victims of the shooting on their return, including Larry Daniel Kaufman, 42, who ran the coffee shop at IRC and was killed in the shooting.

The employees were greeted by management and new security gates when they arrived at Buildings 1 and 2 on Monday; the building where the attack took place remains closed, according to a press release. Today, employees are returning are returning to work at the campus, over a month after the tragic event. A chain-link fence was unlocked Monday morning as some of the Inland Regional Center’s 600 employees went back to work.

Numerous counselors who work at the Inland Regional Center have been visiting the homes of the people they help, autistic children and mentally disabled adults. No visitors are allowed.

While many employees work outside of the office using iPads, this is the first time they’ll be back in the building, where executive director Lavinia Johnson said that a lot of “camaraderie and social activity” occurs.

The offices in the complex were still decorated for Christmas when employees returned; left undisturbed since terrified staff evacuated the complex in a frenzy when Syed Rizwan Farook, an inspector with the county’s public health department, which was hosting a party at the center, and his wife, Tashfeen Malik, began their shooting spree.

Touting the development of lower Manhattan since the attacks that brought down the World Trade Center, Giuliani said he hopes that San Bernardino will also emerge strong.

Thousands of people attended a memorial on Monday for the victims of last month’s terror attack in San Bernardino.

Pollakoff is a client at the center and wanted to show his support.

None of the people with developmental disabilities that the center serves, numbering about 31,000, would visit this week, the Los Angeles Times reported. But they hadnt been together in the place where everything froze since law enforcement officers whisked them away after the gunfire.

While the two main buildings reopened Monday, the third remained cordoned off. It will stay closed indefinitely.

Unidentified staff members hold hands in pray before returning to work at the Inland Regional Center in San Bernardino, Calif., on Monday, Jan. 4, 2016, where an attack killed 14 people on the center¿s campus on December 2.