Lockport NY July 24 2018 The surveillance system that has kept watch on students entering Lockport schools for over a decade is getting a novel upgrade. Facial recognition technology soon will check each face against a database of expelled students, sex offenders and other possible troublemakers. It could be the start of a trend as more…
Fauquier County VA July 19 2018 A total of 109 people have so far applied for 15 new school-security positions planned to ensure all of Fauquier County’s 20 schools are equipped with armed guards when the new school year begins in August. That’s according to Fauquier County Sheriff Bob Mosier, who gave the Fauquier County School…
BENTONVILLE –– The School Board unanimously agreed Monday to let high school security officers carry guns on campus if they complete the required training. Allowing commissioned school security officers will provide an “extra layer of protection” at the high schools and represents one more step toward improving safety in the School District, said Superintendent Debbie…
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…
VIRGINIA BEACH VA More practice for handling emergencies. Securing school entrances. Increased mental health staffing. Those are some of the 11 recommendations from a group that met over the past few months to evaluate security within Virginia Beach’s school system. The panel of police, city, Navy and school personnel was created in the aftermath of…
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…
Washington DC July 9 2018 Two minutes after the glass door of the Capital Gazette newspaper in Annapolis, Maryland, was blasted by a shotgun round, and five newspaper employees were killed, police had the alleged shooter in custody. But they had a problem when they took him in for questioning. He had no identification, he would…
They’re investing in video surveillance, entry control systems, lockdown training and armed police on site. And some are considering newer gadgets that claim to fill security gaps, including door barricades and bulletproof backpacks. School security is a rapidly expanding business, according to research by Jim Dearing, senior security analyst at IHS Markit. The education sector of the…
A recent report from International SOS and Control Risks estimates that the demand for travel security advice has increased by 800 percent in the past decade. Considering the age of globalization that we live in, this isn’t surprising, but it also speaks to how imperative it is that enterprises put their money where their mouths are when…
Woodbridge NJ June 20 2018-A fourth grade teacher has lost her legal bid to to get her job back after being fired for shoplifting. The Superior Court Appellate Division ruled Friday in an 11-page decision that the Woodbridge Board of Education, a state arbitrator and a Middlesex Superior Court judge were justified in firing and…
