Panel: LAUSD Needs School Safety Director, Audit of Metal Detector Policy
The Los Angeles Unified School District safety panel also recommends increased mental health resources and proper firearms storage awareness.
The Los Angeles Unified School District safety panel also recommends increased mental health resources and proper firearms storage awareness.
As students prepare for back to school, Broward County Schools superintendent provided updates on security improvements, including single points of entry.
The new initiative, announced Monday, will offer one handheld metal detector for every 250 students enrolled at a public or charter school.
The Texas high school was placed on lockdown and a tenth-grader was found dead in an empty classroom from a self-inflicted gunshot wound.
School and university officials must consider both the benefits and the drawbacks of every security investment, like this common entryway solution.
The new measures were added following several security breaches at the school last month, including a sheriff’s deputy who was found sleeping in his squad car on campus.
A school security guard can be seen trying to break up a student fight as another starts behind her at Victory Collegiate High School in Brooklyn.
The gunman shot a security officer in the shoulder and shot at a responding police officer before turning the gun on himself.
The figure represents a steep increase compared to what NYC school safety agents confiscated last year.
Metal detectors were installed the day after a student fatally stabbed one classmate and injured another with a three-inch switchblade.
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