A new Kansas law will reduce the number of safety drills required in public and private schools from 16 to nine; four for fire, two for tornadoes and three for crisis lockdown situations.
- By Jessica Davis
- April 18, 2019
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
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
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 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
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
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
Fresno Unified School District is installing security cameras on all of its elementary school campuses.
- By Jessica Davis
- April 15, 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
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
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
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
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
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
A new bill introduced in the Louisiana House would require classrooms with special education students to have cameras.
- By Jessica Davis
- April 10, 2019