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. […]
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 […]
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?” […]