As part of its effort to increase safety on campus, Sacramento State University is installing new locks on its classroom doors and implementing access control measures.
- By Jessica Davis
- April 16, 2019
The University of Michigan will start offering optional active attacker training for students, faculty, staff and members of the community.
- By Jessica Davis
- April 16, 2019
The Lower Merion School District is hiring security guards for its schools. The guards will monitor security cameras and handle visitor management at school entrances.
- By Jessica Davis
- April 16, 2019
The Manhasset School District Board of Education is considering revising its campus visitor policy to further protect schools and students.
- By Jessica Davis
- April 05, 2019
Kalamazoo Public Schools plans to use a $442,773 grant from the Michigan State Police Office of School Safety to purchase new tools for mass communication.
- By Jessica Davis
- April 05, 2019
A newly proposed school safety bill would require Rhode Island schools to form “threat assessment teams” to discuss students who display concerning behavior.
- By Jessica Davis
- April 05, 2019
Georgia Tech disclosed Tuesday that 1.3 million people’s personal information may have been exposed in a data breach.
- By Jessica Davis
- April 04, 2019
The Lee County School District plans to hire 11 attendants next school year to monitor high school restrooms and curb safety and security problems.
- By Jessica Davis
- April 04, 2019
The Seminole County School Board is looking to designate new locations where students can be picked up by parents in case of an emergency.
- By Jessica Davis
- April 04, 2019
For those of you who follow this industry, you know this is a remarkable feat. I sat down with Mark Reid, Director of Safety and Security and Cheryl Michaels, Associate Director, at SPU who also founded Educational Safety LLC, a security consulting firm.
Much like cities, campuses are embracing sophisticated artificial intelligence and datadriven solutions to understand, mitigate and solve security and operational challenges.
- By Stephanie Weagle
- April 01, 2019
Keeping students and staff safe while they’re at school is critically important for public, private, and charter school leaders—and controlling who has access to the building is a fundamental element of any school safety plan.
- By Mike Vance
- April 01, 2019
Safe and nurturing environments are necessary for today’s learners. It is an unfortunate reality that today’s educators are worried about how safe their school environments are.
- By Victoria Fox
- April 01, 2019
EDITOR'S NOTE
Life is unexpected and even the most perfectly laid plans and strategies go awry no matter how hard you try to plan for all scenarios.
- By Sydny Shepard
- April 01, 2019
With the recent media hype about low frequency card readers being easily hacked, schools are now being encouraged to upgrade their low-frequency card readers to higher frequency 13.56 MHz (also known as smart card technology) which are far more difficult to hack.
- By Larry Reed
- April 01, 2019
Many organizations maintain regular technology refresh schedules where old equipment is replaced on a set schedule, usually every three to five years.
- By Brian Carle
- April 01, 2019
Make no mistake, mass notification solutions are a critical necessity no matter what size your campus is.
- By Pat Scheckel
- April 01, 2019
This year, Campus Security & Life Safety will be expanding their successful campus security summits to four new cities: Houston, Chicago, Atlanta and Long Beach, Calif.
One of the most pervasive features of any facility, but especially campus environments such as universities and colleges, is constant change.
- By April Musser, PE, CFPS, MBA
- April 01, 2019
With the ever-present risks of crises and emergency situations on university campuses, the A&MSA Police Department began looking for ways to increase efficiency when it came to campus security.
- By Sydny Shepard
- April 01, 2019
We've collected the top Campus Security & Life Safety stories published in our print issues this year.
- By Jessica Davis, Sydny Shepard
- December 28, 2018
Predicting campus security trends ahead of the New Year.
- By Sydny Shepard
- December 27, 2018
Campus Security & Life Safety takes a look back at the trending security measures on campuses in 2018.
- By Jessica Davis, Sydny Shepard
- December 26, 2018
Superintendent Josha Talison said he is working to get uniformed police officers or sheriff’s deputies present at all after-school activities.
- By Jessica Davis
- December 21, 2018
According to Lynch and the school board, participation in the program would be 100 percent voluntary, and volunteers would be vetted via an extensive process before being approved.
- By Jessica Davis
- December 21, 2018
East Islip school officials said they will be implementing security changes beginning early next year, including the addition of armed security guards on campuses and the installation of new safety hardware.
- By Jessica Davis
- December 21, 2018
The number of data security incidents reported by the education sector in the U.K. increased by more than 43 percent after the implementation of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), reports Schools Week.
- By Jessica Davis
- December 20, 2018
On Sunday, Nov. 11, a small fire broke out in a reading intervention classroom at Sierra House. The fire was caused by electrical overload, contained to the one classroom and quickly extinguished. The school reopened on Nov. 14.
- By Jessica Davis
- December 20, 2018
The suspect was charged with felony counts of disorderly conduct and aggravated battery related to the incident, which took place Nov. 28.
- By Jessica Davis
- December 20, 2018
House Bill 1035 focuses on school resource officers while House Bill 1038 aims to authorize certain school employees to carry firearms on campuses.
- By Jessica Davis
- December 19, 2018