With back-to-school upon us, we all know how important it is to ensure students are prepped with the essentials.
- By Nicole Hockley
- August 01, 2018
Education Week’s log of school shootings reveals at least 13 incidents in 2018 so far, with 97 people killed or injured. How do we stop this unending cycle of violence?
- By Peter Trepp
- August 01, 2018
Every business, campus, facility and organization in a specialty vertical could benefit from some kind of visitor management system, whether on a small or large scale. In reality, these organizations or businesses already have some type of visitor management system in place, but it is often in the inefficient form of a receptionist or paper logbook.
- By Sydny Shepard
- August 01, 2018
The next generation of students is making its way onto college campuses. As millennials trade in their caps and gowns for a spot in the workforce, Gen Z is shopping for dorm room essentials.
- By Jeff Meier
- August 01, 2018
Locked, biometric gun safes will be placed in all eight of the corporation’s school buildings this year. The safes are protected by alarms, monitored by cameras, anchored in concrete, and accessed via fingerprint.
- By Jessica Davis
- July 31, 2018
The doors will be installed as part of a pilot program at two elementary schools and one high school.
- By Sydny Shepard
- July 30, 2018
Parents are finding themselves purchasing bulletproof items for their children to take to school with them.
- By Sydny Shepard
- July 27, 2018
The licensing fee will allow the county's schools, both public and private, to have free access to the Rave Panic Button app.
- By Sydny Shepard
- July 26, 2018
PDK Poll found that parents are more scared to send their students to school than they were 20 years ago in their annual survey.
- By Sydny Shepard
- July 24, 2018
RealNetworks is inviting K-12 schools in the United States and Canada to download their facial recognition technology for free.
- By Sydny Shepard
- July 20, 2018
The Crimson Tide will be introducing metal detecors to football games starting in the fall.
- By Sydny Shepard
- July 18, 2018
Spotsylvania has approved a motion to seek funding for additional security on campus.
- By Sydny Shepard
- July 17, 2018
Qualified security guars at North Shore University Hospitals will now be armed amid shooting incidents in New York.
- By Sydny Shepard
- July 16, 2018
A threat assessment program create standards for teachers and peers to identify threats before they happen.
- By Sydny Shepard
- July 13, 2018
Garrett Metal Detectors Extends Offer To Santa Fe High School
Maryland schools are adding security vestibules to better manage visitors.
- By Sydny Shepard
- July 11, 2018
Arkansas looks for ways to boost security on campuses.
- By Sydny Shepard
- July 10, 2018
Catholic churches in Fort Worth have removed signs banning guns, but that doesn't mean the policy has changed.
- By Sydny Shepard
- July 09, 2018
The campus security market is expected to reach $2.8 billion by 2021.
- By Sydny Shepard
- July 03, 2018
There is no single approach or solution that can help protect schools.
- By Sam Rabadi
- June 28, 2018
Pennsylvania is encouraging schools to boost security with new funding.
- By Sydny Shepard
- June 26, 2018
Schools in Virginia and Maryland are boosting security before school starts in the Fall
- By Sydny Shepard
- June 19, 2018
Cyber security has to now be as central to the safety of students and faculty as physical security is.
- By Isaac Kohen
- June 12, 2018
Four months after two students died in a shooting on campus, the district is layering security measures to keep students safe.
- By Sydny Shepard
- June 07, 2018
The School Board of Broward County, including Marjory Douglas Stoneman High School, has revealed what it is doing to create safer schools.
- By Sydny Shepard
- June 05, 2018
In an ongoing effort to improve campus safety and security, Texas Tech has instituted a program to install security cameras at random locations across campus, hopefully to not only deter crime from happening on campus but also to assist the Texas Tech Police Department with investigating and solving crimes that do happen on campus.
- By George Watson
- June 01, 2018
It happened at 11:46 a.m. on a Friday, just three weeks before the Parkland shooting. A southeastern university issued a campus-wide emergency notification advising a gunman was on or near campus, and that individuals should seek protective shelter immediately.
- By Gus Porter, MPH, CPH, Jeff Karpovich, MA, CPP, CHPA
- June 01, 2018
Michigan State University and Notre Dame are fierce competitors, but off the field, they are among university police departments nationwide who join forces by employing specially trained Vapor Wake K-9s with one goal: keeping campuses safe.
- By Janet McCoy
- June 01, 2018
“You never think it is going to happen to you.” That was the first thing Jake Glacer said to me when we sat down to talk at ISC West.
- By Sydny Shepard
- June 01, 2018
OSDP provides a higher level of security, and continuously monitors wiring to guard against hackers.
- By Kim Rahfaldt
- May 30, 2018