The idea behind the bill is to make sure there is a person trained to fire a weapon at each school.
- By Sydny Shepard
- February 22, 2018
The post, which as been shared over 1.3 million times, is a photo of a rubber door stop and a story of an aunt urging her nieces to keep it in their backpacks.
- By Sydny Shepard
- February 21, 2018
Video from the school's surveillance system has helped police put together a timeline of events on the day of the shooting.
- By Sydny Shepard
- February 16, 2018
The 19-year-old shooter is now in custody.
- By Ralph C. Jensen, Sydny Shepard
- February 14, 2018
Start With Hello Week is an initiative created by Sandy Hook Promise to instill conectedness on campuses and decrease the amount of social isolation.
- By Sydny Shepard
- February 09, 2018
PHOTO: BYU
The new university app feature, called Safewalk, expands on an already existent BYU program to enable police to track students’ locations through their smartphones and virtually “walk” with students through campus and the student housing areas.
- By Jessica Davis
- February 08, 2018
School campuses across the country are on high alert following an unprecedented amount of school shootings this year.
- By Sydny Shepard
- February 06, 2018
A 12-year-old has been charged with negligent discharge of a firearm after five people were injured at Sal Castro Middle School.
- By Sydny Shepard
- February 02, 2018
The initiative teaches students skills to create more connectedness on campus.
- By Sydny Shepard
- February 01, 2018
Officials at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center in Lebanon, New Hampshire, are finalizing changes to the hospital campus’s security and emergency response protocols after a fatal shooting last fall. The changes are estimated to cost $400,000.
- By Jessica Davis
- January 31, 2018
Rock Creek High School changed the location of their front office to ensure the safety and security of students.
- By Sydny Shepard
- January 29, 2018
CSLS now offers a products contest for safety and security products found on campuses.
- By Sydny Shepard
- January 25, 2018
Police officers were assigned to New Rochelle High School following three violent incidents on campus.
- By Sydny Shepard
- January 24, 2018
Two students were killed and 12 others were shot at Marshall County High School.
- By Sydny Shepard
- January 23, 2018
A male student shot and wounded a female student in the cafeteria of Italy High School in Italy, Texas.
- By Sydny Shepard
- January 22, 2018
Nevada launches programs for high school girls to find careers in cybersecurity.
- By Sydny Shepard
- January 22, 2018
Following an incident in September, safety and security administration at Auburn University are beefing up security on campus transit.
- By Sydny Shepard
- January 17, 2018
Last Tuesday, college and university presidents across Florida received a 1,250-word extortion email threatening violence.
- By Jessica Davis
- January 08, 2018
Long before the Columbine High School massacre put school shootings in the media, the threat was already there, and certain emergency protocols had been put in place.
- By Lindsay Page
- January 01, 2018
Editor's Note
Within 40 days in 2017, more than 80 families mourned the lives of those lost in unnecessary violence on soft targets including the attacks on a Las Vegas outdoor concert and the Texas church shooting.
- By Sydny Shepard
- January 01, 2018
In this day and age, securing educational facilities is not as simple as it once was. Long gone are the days of slapping CCTV cameras around the exterior of a building and calling it “secure.”
- By Ellie Randall
- January 01, 2018
On the morning of Oct. 5, someone placed anonymous telephone calls to four high schools in Springfield, Ill., claiming in each call that that there was a bomb in the school and that everyone needed to get out of the building.
- By Scott Stewart
- January 01, 2018
The headlines have been horrifying recently. It seems like every other week there is another shooting to break the spirits of America all over again.
- By Jessica Davis
- January 01, 2018
As K-12 and higher education campuses work diligently to advance security measures in the wake of increased risk across the nation, more administrations are searching for ways to make smart capital investments.
- By Mitchell Kane
- January 01, 2018
Many USB thumb drives being used on campuses today could be generously classified as BYOD, but many of these can be infected with malware and viruses that can adversely affect the entire college network.
- By Ruben Lugo
- January 01, 2018
This is the second time in three weeks that gunfire damage has occurred at the campus, according to school district officials.
- By Jessica Davis
- November 30, 2017
Tehama County Sheriff says five people are dead, including the gunman, following a shooting spree in California.
- By Sydny Shepard
- November 14, 2017
The mass shooting at a South Texas church during services Sunday has many churches across the country reevaluating their security.
- By Jessica Davis
- November 07, 2017
The standard campus entry policy at the front desk did not deter him.
- By Jessica Davis
- November 06, 2017
With so much of today’s technology relying more and more on the Internet of Things, it does not make sense for schools—or any organization— to invest in a system that can’t connect and integrate with various systems and technologies.
- By Greg Smith
- November 01, 2017