“By doing the security upgrades, we are just limiting access to anyone unless they really truly need to come into the building," Pikeland School District Superintendent Paula Hawley said.
- By Jessica Davis
- February 19, 2019
The district is working with the Sweethearts and Heroes program, which is designed to empower victims and bystanders to take a stand and change a negative experience into a positive one.
- By Jessica Davis
- February 19, 2019
"We aren’t trying to be big and bad. We just want to make sure if in the unlikely event, that something goes down, we have the right people with the right tools to get that job done,” Principal Dr. Bill Jones said.
- By Jessica Davis
- February 15, 2019
The Hamilton County Sheriff’s Office and Sycamore Township Fire Department helped the school facilitate the interactive drill, which included an intruder entering the building, police responding and firing blanks, students evaluating the situation and first responders helping those who were labeled as being injured.
- By Jessica Davis
- February 15, 2019
No one was injured and a suspect is in custody, police and school officials said.
- By Jessica Davis
- February 15, 2019
The Lockport City School District is exploring additions to its security policy that includes facial recognition software.
- By Sydny Shepard
- February 14, 2019
Several changes have been made in Florida following the mass shooting that killed 17 people at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School.
- By Sydny Shepard
- February 14, 2019
“We try to keep vigilant at the synagogue, and it’s not new, not necessarily since the Pittsburgh attacks, but we’ve been vigilant there ever since 9/11,” Etz Chaim Synagogue President Dr. Scott Ackerman said.
- By Jessica Davis
- February 13, 2019
According to police, the gunman entered the school just after noon and shot special education assistant Michael Marks. The 56-year-old victim remains in serious condition and the 25-year-old gunman is in police custody.
- By Jessica Davis
- February 13, 2019
In its final report, the panel recommended funding for school resource officers at every school in the state, or at least at every middle and high school campus, with multiple elementary schools sharing one officer.
- By Jessica Davis
- February 13, 2019
Alyssa's law requires all New Jersey schools to install silent panic alarms that will alert law enforcement officials of an emergency.
- By Sydny Shepard
- February 12, 2019
Grant Us Hope is expanding their program to 55 schools by the end of 2019.
- By Sydny Shepard
- February 12, 2019
Mt. Pleasant High School is implementing a new nation wide tip line designed to help prevent school violence.
- By Sydny Shepard
- February 12, 2019
An alert was sent out campus-wide just after 8:45 a.m. on Wednesday, telling students, faculty and staff to shelter in place. The text identified the exercise as a drill that the school had planned and previously announced.
- By Jessica Davis
- February 11, 2019
A 15-year-old student from a private school in Huntsville, Ala., spent two days blending into the student body of a crosstown high school and attending classes last month.
- By Jessica Davis
- February 11, 2019
The department will be comprised of a chief, two lieutenants, four sergeants, 36 school resource officers, three relief school resource officers and a detective.
- By Jessica Davis
- February 11, 2019
The Edmond Public Schools current bond issue includes shatter-resistant window film, new video surveillance equipment and ID badges for secondary school students.
- By Jessica Davis
- February 08, 2019
The new positions will replace the previous district job descriptions for hall monitors. Those jobs were left vacant as those employees retired or were transferred to other areas within the school district.
- By Jessica Davis
- February 08, 2019
Saratoga Parents for Safer Schools is comprised of parents advocating for more school resource officers, more mental health services and for reworking the grounds monitor position to what the group calls a school security officer.
- By Jessica Davis
- February 08, 2019
After multiple incidents in Richmond, Kentucky, both Richmond and Eastern Kentucky University police are urging area residents to take extra caution. The warnings follow the death of a missing woman, Amanda Bailey, the ongoing search for another woman, Savannah Spurlock, and a reported sexual assault near EKU’s campus.
- By Jessica Davis
- February 07, 2019