Charlotte NC Sept 21, 2021 Private security officers have been cussed at, spat at, assaulted, and killed while trying to enforce the Covid-19 safeguard rules since early 2020. For the most part, officers have been assigned to duties like taking the temperatures of store customers and restaurant guests, enforcing the social distancing and the face […]
MANHATTAN NY Sept 21 2021 — If eating out at New York City restaurants wasn’t already different enough during the COVID-19 pandemic, some businesses are going through another change: beefed-up security. With Mayor Bill de Blasio’s “Key to NYC Pass” vaccine mandate in effect, restaurant staff are now required to ask customers 12-years-of-age and older for […]
Boise ID Sept 18 2021 In the latest blow in the state’s battle with COVID-19, the Idaho Department of Health and Welfare announced Thursday that it has activated crisis standards of care for the entire state. The request to expand crisis standards beyond North Idaho was made by St. Luke’s Health System. St. Luke’s has major […]
Boise ID Sept 18 2021 In the latest blow in the state’s battle with COVID-19, the Idaho Department of Health and Welfare announced Thursday that it has activated crisis standards of care for the entire state. The request to expand crisis standards beyond North Idaho was made by St. Luke’s Health System. St. Luke’s has major […]
LEE COUNTY, Ala. Sept 17 2021 A Lee County court security officer with the Lee Co. Sheriff’s Office died on Tuesday morning from COVID. 77-year-old Freddie Rowell started at the Lee County Sheriff’s Office in 2010, retiring in August of 2020. According to Lee Co. Sheriff Jay Jones, Rowell was a reserve deputy before going full […]
Charlotte NC September 16, 2021 Three more actively employed security officers have died of Covid-19 complications. One of those, a female security officer was taken to a hospital from her job in Philadelphia PA earlier this month. She later died from Covid-19 complications. Her name has not been released yet. Two other security officers, both […]
Washington DC Sept 15 2021 According to the National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial Fund, 182 law enforcement officers died of COVID-19 last year. Add the 71 officers who have died in the first half of this year from the virus, and COVID is now the leading cause of law enforcement officer line-of-duty fatalities. The 71 deaths […]
Charlotte NC Sept 13, 2021 Armed security officers have been used to secure many Covid-19 vaccination sites throughout the country since late 2020 but now, they’re going mobile. Since the beginning of the vaccination push, security officers have secured vaccination locations ensuring public safety and preventing the theft of the vaccines. At least nine security […]
Jefferson County CO Sept 13, 2021, Security officers will help protect workers at three mobile COVID vaccination units in Colorado’s Jefferson County following an extended period of harassment and vandalism. The arrangement will remain in place for the foreseeable future so that the county can continue to hold vaccination events, according to The Gazette, a local […]
Washington DC September 5, 2021 The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) has announced the sad passing of another member of the TSA family. Fort Myers-based Lead Transportation Security Officer (LTSO) Robert Garcia passed away from complications of COVID-19, on August 28, 2021. Garcia joined TSA in November 2002 and served as an LTSO at Lincoln Airport […]