Under a new policy, students at Charles County Public Schools will have to keep their backpacks in their locker during the school day.
- By Jessica Davis
- April 18, 2019
Schools across the Denver area are closed today as a “massive manhunt” continues for a woman “infatuated with Columbine” who is said to be armed and “extremely dangerous,” according to police
- By Jessica Davis
- April 17, 2019
Chugiak High School is increasing security and adding more surveillance cameras to its campus to cover the additional 600 students moved to the campus after an earthquake rendered Gruening Middle School unsafe.
- By Jessica Davis
- April 17, 2019
The Bentonville School District will be upgrading the emergency notification systems in most of its buildings as part of a project approved by the School Board on Monday.
- By Jessica Davis
- April 17, 2019
The Teton County School District No. 1 board of trustees approved funding April 10 to purchase better locks for school buildings.
- By Jessica Davis
- April 17, 2019
As part of its effort to increase safety on campus, Sacramento State University is installing new locks on its classroom doors and implementing access control measures.
- By Jessica Davis
- April 16, 2019
The University of Michigan will start offering optional active attacker training for students, faculty, staff and members of the community.
- By Jessica Davis
- April 16, 2019
The Lower Merion School District is hiring security guards for its schools. The guards will monitor security cameras and handle visitor management at school entrances.
- By Jessica Davis
- April 16, 2019
Fresno Unified School District is installing security cameras on all of its elementary school campuses.
- By Jessica Davis
- April 15, 2019
The Regional Medical Center in Orangeburg, Tenn., has added armed guards and plans to further boost security following the shooting of an employee in the emergency department on Wednesday.
- By Jessica Davis
- April 15, 2019
Multiple synagogues and Jewish institutions in Sacramento and the Bay Area have each received federal grants of as much as $150,000 for security.
- By Jessica Davis
- April 15, 2019
Gov. Doug Burgum signed a bill Wednesday allowing North Dakota schools—mostly rural campuses—to develop plans for an “armed first responder.”
- By Jessica Davis
- April 12, 2019
The Cranford Police Department and Cranford Public Schools are opening “Police Substations” within the district’s three largest campuses.
- By Jessica Davis
- April 12, 2019
The University of Notre Dame announced Thursday that walk-through metal detectors will be used at all gates of Notre Dame Stadium during the 2019 football season.
- By Jessica Davis
- April 12, 2019
Mansfield Schools Superintendent Teresa Murphy said Tuesday that district officials have addressed safety and security problems raised by a man who, according to police, entered two schools after hours while stalking a teacher he once dated.
- By Jessica Davis
- April 11, 2019
Grand Blanc Community Schools is using part of a grant from the Michigan State Police School Safety Initiative to install more than a thousand barricade locks, one for each classroom door in the district.
- By Jessica Davis
- April 11, 2019
Davis School District officials announced Tuesday a new agreement allowing its security cameras to be streamed live to the Davis County Sheriff’s Office in an emergency.
- By Jessica Davis
- April 11, 2019
A new bill introduced in the Louisiana House would require classrooms with special education students to have cameras.
- By Jessica Davis
- April 10, 2019
The West Platte School District recently installed facial recognition cameras on their campuses to improve safety and security for their students and staff.
- By Jessica Davis
- April 10, 2019
Some Hood Elementary School parents are unhappy with the way they were notified after a teacher discovered gunshot damage to the campus’s portable addition on Monday morning.
- By Jessica Davis
- April 10, 2019
The Campus Accountability and Safety Act would require schools to survey their students, train campus administrators and increase safety on campuses.
- By Jessica Davis
- April 09, 2019
The University of New Mexico-Valencia Campus is using a gunshot detection system to increase student safety.
- By Jessica Davis
- April 09, 2019
Erie School District police officers are now carrying Tasers in addition to guns in schools.
- By Jessica Davis
- April 09, 2019
Wyoming Medical Center plans to upgrade its security equipment and protocols following a shooting and lockdown last month.
- By Jessica Davis
- April 08, 2019
Prescott School District plans to add additional safety and security measures following last Monday’s on-campus shooting.
- By Jessica Davis
- April 08, 2019
Under proposed changes to Wisconsin law, students could be given advance warning about emergency drills.
- By Jessica Davis
- April 08, 2019
The Manhasset School District Board of Education is considering revising its campus visitor policy to further protect schools and students.
- By Jessica Davis
- April 05, 2019
Kalamazoo Public Schools plans to use a $442,773 grant from the Michigan State Police Office of School Safety to purchase new tools for mass communication.
- By Jessica Davis
- April 05, 2019
A newly proposed school safety bill would require Rhode Island schools to form “threat assessment teams” to discuss students who display concerning behavior.
- By Jessica Davis
- April 05, 2019
Georgia Tech disclosed Tuesday that 1.3 million people’s personal information may have been exposed in a data breach.
- By Jessica Davis
- April 04, 2019