Tulsa OK June 12 2019– Nightfall had come and people were milling about at a Tulsa apartment complex as several security officers patrolled the area for loiters or suspicious activity. It didn’t take long after the two officers had started their patrols for gunshots to ring out Wednesday morning at the Sierra Pointe Apartments near…
Shots were being fired from behind a row of cars at a Southside Chicago bar just days away from Christmas 2018. A man, ejected because of an earlier dispute had gone back to his vehicle and retrieved a firearm and began shooting toward the nightclub. Two security officers immediately returned fire while a third security…
TUPELO – Lee County Schools took a magnifying glass to the district safety plan this week and will make several improvements to school security in the fall, with the hiring of eight individuals to the district security team and a new safety coordinator. School board president Sherry Mask said each school will now have its…
PORTLAND, Ore. – A former college football standout at the University of Oregon was credited Friday with tackling an armed student at a Portland, Oregon, high school before anyone was injured. Keanon Lowe, a football and track coach and a security guard at Parkrose High School, told reporters as he was leaving a police interview late…
Santa Fe NM Sept 28 2017 Santa Fe Public Schools has begun replacing more than a third of its security guards this week after discovering they did not have the proper state certification for the job. Superintendent Veronica García said four of the seven guards removed from the district’s high schools and middle schools Monday were…
Dauphin County, Pennsylvania. July 15 2018 Susquenita School District is adding armed security officers to guard the schools this year, part of an overall security strategy included in the district’s budget that the board approved in June. The move is in-line with options that many other districts in the region are considering to protect their…
TWIN FALLS ID July 11 2018 — The Twin Falls School District will hire 15 unarmed school security paraprofessionals for next school year. School trustees voted unanimously Monday night to endorse the proposal. It will cost $375,000, the equivalent of about $25,000 per employee, including salary and benefits. The 2017-18 school year was the deadliest at school…
Reluctantly going back on its decision to arm only sworn law enforcement officers with weapons, the Broward County School Board unanimously approved hiring armed, non-sworn guards to protect schools and to comply with a new state law. Board members’ votes at Tuesday’s meeting came with two caveats: That the role of the “armed safe school…
LAND O’LAKES, Fla.–Men and women training to be school safety guards in Pasco County schools took part in an active shooter drill at Charles S. Rushe Middle School Friday, practicing skills and tactics each one of them hoped they’ll never have to use in a real-life incident One by one, they made their way through…
A recently-formed group, Bloomfield Parents for Sensible Safety, came together after learning of the proposed placement of nine armed guards (Class III police officers) at the entrances to the township’s elementary schools, to be funded by a $550k line in the school budget. The group has created a petition urging the BOE to explore other security methods…
