Hackensack NJ Sept 28 2018 Hackensack schools will soon have their own armed officerss, making the city the latest community in North Jersey to adopt more stringent safety protocols in their schools following the Parkland shooting earlier this year. The City Council this week established the position of Class III Special Law Enforcement Officers, or […]
Rock Spring, GA Sept 28 2018 The safety of our students, faculty and staff as well as visitors to our campuses is of the highest priority,” said GNTC President Pete McDonald. “A safe campus environment is critical to learning and skill development. Our new police officers are highly experienced officers who bring many years of […]
TAKOMA PARK, Md. Sept 27 2018—A Maryland college was placed on lockdown Wednesday after an armed man pointed a gun at a security officer. Takoma Park police said that the unarmed security officer was responding to a report of a man with a firearm on the campus. Just before 8 a.m. calls came in about […]
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. Sept 27 2018 – A Jacksonville charter school principal is packing heat. San Jose Academy & Preparatory High School’s principal is one of the first Duval County charter school employees to graduate from the Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office’s training academy for “safe school officers.” Principal and Executive Director Alan Hall now walks through school […]
CHARLOTTE, N.C. Sept 26 2018 – Occupants of two cars dropping off students at a Charlotte school were engaged in a shoot-out while on school property, police report. The school was put on lockdown Monday due to the police activity in front of the school. The principal of the school sent a message home to families […]
AUSTIN TX Sept 19 2018 — DPS troopers are teaming up with Texas School for the Deaf to make its 67-acre campus safer. Until this year, the 50 building school, which serves 600 students from Pre-K to age 22, only had staff members trained as security personnel. Those security employees are not peace officers, nor are […]
PHOENIX AZ Sept 19 2018 — Security camera systems are an easy way to monitor large school campuses. SSI sister publication Campus Safety found that nine out of 10 schools are using such solutions. However, they don’t necessarily make students feel any safer. A study conducted by Sarah Lindstrom Johnson, an assistant professor at Arizona State […]
DECATUR IL Sept 19 2018 — Richland Community College leaders are hopeful that a new campus police force can be up and running by the end of this year. The Public Safety Department, which was unanimously approved during Tuesday night’s meeting of the college’s board of trustees, will allow Richland to have its own officers […]
SHAMONG NJ Sept 18 2018 — The Lenape Board of Education publicly recognized four security personnel at its Sept. 12 meeting, whose response led to the arrest of an individual who tried to enter Cherokee High School on the first day of school but had no connection to the institution. “The safety and security of our […]
Rapid City SD Sept 17 2018 As students waft sage into their faces during a morning ceremony to start the Friday school day at Wolf Creek Middle, Superintendent Anthony Fairbanks recalls the day thirteen years earlier when violence last visited a school he knew well. “That was just a normal, typical day. Who would’ve known?” […]