Video expert outlines ABCs of school security
According to technology research firm Gartner, school districts are using more effective, advanced security technologies in the wake of security breaches and campus violence across the nation.
To help administrators understand video technology issues and campus security challenges and solutions, video surveillance provider Wren Education Solutions has released a white paper entitled "A Guide to Successful Network Video Implementation in K-12 Schools."...
Schools, Security and Video: 6 Tips for Surveillance Deployment
BY ANDREW WREN AND BRAD SPICER
Almost 20 percent of K-12 public schools use security cameras, according to the National Center for Education Statistics Indicators of School Crime and...
Technology-Enabled Protection
As Canada's premier polytechnic institute, the British Columbia Institute of Technology (BCIT) is known for giving students job-ready skills they can...
Pa. school security goes to head of the CLASS
School security concerns have created a whole new meaning for the word CLASS at Greencastle-Antrim elementary and primary schools in Pennsylvania.
The schools have developed a $6,000 program called "Children Leaving a School Safely," or CLASS, which creates "simpler and safer sign-out" of grade school children at the end of the day, Pa. Director of Elementary Education Greg Hoover tells the Waynesboro Record Herald....
Security concerns influence school design
A 2005 school security and land price study has prompted school officials in Collier County, Fla., to change the way they build new schools.
Officials sought a new design for schools to keep students in a more enclosed space, according to a report in the Bonita Daily News. Veterans Memorial Elementary School, scheduled to open in the fall, will be the last one-story, open-air school built in Collier County, says Alvah Hardy, executive director of facilities management for the district....
School Security With Class
School security concerns have created a whole new meaning for the word CLASS at Greencastle-Antrim elementary and primary schools in Pennsylvania. The...
Universities especially vulnerable to ID theft
Universities have become attractive targets for hackers who are taking advantage of the openness of the schools' networks, their decentralized security and the personal information they keep on millions of young adults, The Associated Press reports.
A major database breach at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), that went undetected for more than a year and a smaller breach at the University of Texas are the latest examples of how vulnerable colleges are to such attacks....
N.Y. schools implement security technology
Several New York local school districts have increased spending on security after recent school shootings across the country.
Administrators say they think preventative measures already in place -- including single points of entry and checking in visitors -- work well.
But some school leaders say they are constantly looking for ways to make their schools more secure, and money put toward students' safety is well spent....
Web-based tip line may solve some school security issues
At a private Web site, students can now send secret messages to staff at Westfield High School in Texas about their own -- and other people's -- problems, The Houston Chronicle reports.
In the Houston area, Westfield and at least two other schools have tried the e-mail system developed by a Houston nonprofit organization and now run by AnComm, a Mississippi-based company with its own MySpace page. More than 40 schools use it nationwide....
Security system produces measurable results for school
The number of fights reported in the Pharr - San Juan - Alamo (PSJA) High School district in Texas for the first two months of the school year decreased 58 percent from the same period last year, according to district disciplinary records. ...
School district may authorize guns for plain clothes security
The Clarke County School District in Athens, Ga., is considering allowing high school security supervisors to carry guns on campus, The Associated Press reports.
School resource officers, or uniformed police officers assigned to the district's middle and high schools, already carry weapons, as does Frank Platt, the district's security director....
Cooperation key to school security, Bush summit concludes
After leading a school security summit last week, President Bush challenged the United States last week to turn its remorse into action to keep school children safe.
"In many ways, I'm sorry we're having this meeting," Bush said. "In other ways, I know how important it is that we're having this meeting."...
State-of-the-art ID check technology available to schools
Security tips for school administrators
President Bush today called experts together after three deadly shootings at schools in Wisconsin, Colorado and Pennsylvania (see securitysolutions.com/news/school-shootings-security-concerns/).
In panel discussions led by members of Bush's Cabinet, speakers said the best response is basic: get parents, school leaders, students and police to work together.
"Our first line of prevention is really having good intelligence," said Delbert Elliott, director of the Center for the Study and Prevention of Violence in Boulder, Colo. He said schools should encourage kids to speak up when they hear classmates boasting of violent plans. The Bush Administration, compelled to respond to the violence of the last two weeks, said a public sharing of ideas would help because the nation is suddenly focused on school safety.
With school security top-of-mind, here is a checklist to help school administrators determine potential weaknesses in campus security, from Patrick V. Fiel Sr., a public safety adviser specializing in education for ADT Security Services Inc.:...
New wave of shootings brings school security back to the forefront
In the span of a month, schools across the country have seen a dramatic rise in violent incidents:
* A 32-year-old dairy truck driver storms a one-room Amish school in Pennsylvania and kills five girls.
* A drifter walks into a Colorado school and fatally shoots a student before taking his own life.
* Wisconsin authorities charge three boys with plotting a bomb attack on their high school.
* A student in a rural school allegedly shoots his principal.
* A gunman bursts into a Vermont elementary school looking for his ex-girlfriend and guns down a teacher.
Is something wrong with school security? Experts say there is simply no way to guarantee that a stranger or student won't be able to injure or kill on school grounds....
Video Evidence Backs Up University Police at Jacksonville State
Heightened concerns over the safety of police officers and the need to defend officers against false allegations provided the impetus for Jacksonville...
TSA begins school transportation security program
Buffalo to start school year with new security chief
Instant Feedback
By Ashley Roe
Spanning a total of 300,000 square feet in urban Washington, D.C., McKinley Technology High School, the second largest school in the District of Columbia...
More Than Meets the Eye
By Don Garbera
Living in New York can be an extremely rewarding experience for students who come to receive an art education. The cultural environment, coupled with...
Tough on Cards
Students want to fit in. They want to be just like all of their friends. For students at Painesville City Local School District, an unusual point of differentiation...
Expert: Some college campuses have false sense of security
West Va. University Gets Its Hands On Access Control
West Virginia University has chosen biometric hand readers to control access to its Student Recreation Center. The readers, from Ingersoll Rand Security Technologies, are being used to replace a card swiping system already in place....
Patriotic Protection
By Carol Carey
George Mason University (GMU) is bursting with pride and record enrollment. The home of the GMU Patriots basketball team watched its applications soar...
Students find stealthy ringtone that teachers cannot hear
Students are using a new ring tone to receive messages in class -- and many teachers cannot even hear the ring...
