FAIR LAWN, NJ October 3 2018— Parents and students may have noticed an increased police presence at borough schools this year. Eleven Class Three Special Law Officers, seven full-time and four part-time, have been hired to provide security at the borough’s nine schools. Special law officers provided security at the middle schools last year during […]
Pittsburgh PA October 3 2018 Pittsburgh Public Schools are exploring a possible policy change that would allow school police officers to carry guns. Pittsburgh Public Schools police Chief George Brown told the board Monday that officers need guns to do their jobs. He added that they’ve been trained to work with all students and to de-escalate […]
Washington DC October 3 2018 Security companies spent years pushing schools to buy more products — from “ballistic attack-resistant” doors to smoke cannons that spew haze from ceilings to confuse a shooter. But sales were slow, and industry’s campaign to free up taxpayer money for upgrades had stalled. That changed last February, when a former […]
HARTFORD, CT October 3 2018 A student was arrested after a fight broke out at Hartford Public High School on Tuesday afternoon. The fight was reported around 1 p.m., where the school went into a lockdown mode until 2:30 p.m. All afternoon and evening activities were canceled for Tuesday. School officials said the fight happened between […]
Fort Myers FL Oct 2 2018 Fort Myers Police have arrested a man who got onto a Lee County school campus and attacked a security guard. It happened Thursday at Fort Myers Technical College on Michigan Avenue. Despite being a district school, the campus does not have a school resource officer. The same goes for Cape […]
Texarkana AR Sept 30 2018 An Arkansas High School student is arrested for making threats to classmates during school hours. The 17-year old is facing a felony charge of First Degree Terrorist Threatening. Texarkana, Arkansas Police say since February they’ve investigated 14 reported threats of violence and made 5 arrests. According to an arrest affidavit, […]
LOUISVILLE, Ky. Sept 29 2018 – A Bowling Green, Kentucky professor has pleaded guilty to defrauding Western Kentucky University, announced United States Attorney Russell M. Coleman. According to a plea agreement, between 2006 and October 2017, Matt Dettman devised a scheme to defraud Western Kentucky University by diverting concrete and soil test payments from WKU’s Engineering […]
PALISADES PARK NJ Sept 29 2018 — A police officer assigned to borough schools was pulled from the hallways because of the associated costs and because the school district officials no longer had a written agreement in place with the borough government. The police officer was posted after an armed security guard program was suspended by school […]
This week Athena Security announces the successful launch and implementation of the world’s first artificial intelligence security camera system capable of instantly and accurately recognizing an active shooter before they shoot, alerting law enforcement and verbally alerting the assailant that Police are en route. Historically, security cameras are only as useful as the people […]
Gary IN Sept 28 2018 A Gary mother who is accused of repeatedly striking staff members after she learned her 8-year-old son went missing from his school was charged Thursday with three felonies and four misdemeanors. On Sept. 13, Latashay Bonner, 30, got into an alleged violent altercation with a Marquette Elementary School teacher and administrator. […]