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New software from La Crescenta, Calif.-based Mobile BIS dramatically enhances police oficer and community safety by providing instant background checks and sex offender tracking capabilities. It also provides police officers on patrol with instant access to an...
Samsung Techwin America of Carson, Calif., unveils the SOC-4160, a compact high-performance indoor/outdoor day/night camera with integrated mount. The SOC-4160 can achieve up to 600 TV lines of resolution in color and up to 700 in black and white, providing a crisp...
NEW YORK—New York Gov. David Paterson has submitted legislation that would require every school to post the state’s violence hotline in the hallways so that students who have been bullied can have quick access to services.Bill No. 291 comes after a...
[IMAGE]289[/IMAGE]HARRIS COUNTY, Texas—Safe School Alerts, www.safeschoolalerts.org, an online source for emergency school alerts in Harris County (Texas) and surrounding regions, will receive the national “outstanding practice/program” award at the...
After a large scale or community-wide disaster has struck, what is often left behind is a lot of damage, debris and injured persons. Should this occur on your campus, would you be prepared to evacuate the injured or those who are permanently handicapped? Habitually,...
ROCKVILLE, Md.—From 2004 to 2008, the estimated number of emergency department visits linked to the nonmedical use of prescription pain relievers rose from 144,644 visits to 305,885 visits a year, according to a study by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health...
SANTA BARBARA, Calif. —The University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB) has rolled out the first of what school officials hope will be a network of five mass notification warning system speakers has been installed on the roof of Kerr Hall in the heart of the...
ONTARIO, Calif. —A California police department did not violate the privacy of a SWAT sergeant, when it reviewed text messages sent using his department-issued pager, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled.The Ontario Police Department fired Sgt. Jeff Quon after an...
IRVINE, Calif.—A disciplinary committee at the University of California, Irvine has recommended a year’s suspension for the Muslim Student Union (MSU) because of a protest that disrupted a talk by Israel’s ambassador.A 14-page letter from a student...
LONGVIEW, Texas—The Spring Hill Independent School District (ISD) will spend more than $70,000 to increase security at all district schools.The Spring Hill ISD board of trustees approved a $73,368 expenditure Monday for purchasing and installing security cameras...
AMHERST, Mass.—The University of Massachusetts (UMass) has received $368,000 in emergency planning grants from state and federal governments.UMass will spend $50,000 in state funding to pay for two trailers equipped with sheltering supplies, including folding...
BEDFORD, Mass.—Police arrested a man at the Edith Nourse Rogers Memorial Veterans Hospital after he allegedly handed over a homemade pipe bomb.Christopher McDonald and Sean Carney had been walking near the emergency department and were pointing at several nearby...