Here’s How Rock Hill School District Expanded Its Lockdown Capabilities
This K-12 district in South Carolina enhanced school security by integrating door hardware that enables remote lockdown at secondary perimeter doors.
This K-12 district in South Carolina enhanced school security by integrating door hardware that enables remote lockdown at secondary perimeter doors.
Strategies that have been proven to work in other active shooter incidents also applied to the 2012 Newtown, Conn., mass school shooting.
School districts in Alabama, Indiana, Tennessee and Georgia are among many whose approved budgets for additional security include access control and school resource officers.
The new visitor management system will scan visitors IDs before granting entry to one of the schools.
Access control, metal detection and limiting the size of packages allowed into your event will help boost security.
The Campus Safety conference in Chicago will be split up into three tracks designed to serve the needs of security professionals in different fields: K-12, higher education and hospitals.
Survey shows many university, school and hospital protection professionals want their campuses to conduct more risk/vulnerability reviews.
These are some of the key points from today’s Newtown, Conn., school shooting report that apply to K-12 school design, lockdown, evacuation and emergency notification.
Last December’s Sandy Hook Elementary School mass shooting prompted nearly nine in 10 K-12 respondents and more than one in two university and hospital respondents to make changes in their public safety programs. Other large-scale emergencies, however, didn’t result in as much action by campuses.
Here are some examples of the measures that can be deployed to protect K-12 schools from unauthorized entry.