LenSec recently announced its selection by Ysleta Independent School District in Texas to provide a district-wide IP video surveillance system for the high school campus network.
ADT Security Services recently announced the availability of ADT Select Link, a Web-based electronic notification system that is designed to alert thousands of people in emergency or routine situations.
Looking to improve security in important areas, Grand Rapids Community College in Michigan has turned to biometric hand readers to provide protection.
- By Brent Dirks
- Feb 08, 2008
ioimage recently announced that the Shi Jia Zhuang experimental high school in China has successfully completed installation of ioimage’s video surveillance system to protect it’s 2,500 students, supervise the schools entrance and prevent theft.
A complete end-to-end IP video solution is being deployed at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine as part of a campus-wide CCTV upgrade.
Prepared Response Inc. recently announced that more than 2,000 school campuses in 270 school districts across the country are now using the company’s Rapid Responder Crisis Management System to protect students and staff.
Five schools within New Jersey’s Brick Township Public School District have graduated to a WAN-based IP video surveillance system that will help to improve the safety and security environment for the schools’ students, staff and visitors.
Whether in retrofit or new construction on college campuses, the business case for deploying wireless access control systems in networked openings is compelling. Wireless solutions seamlessly integrate into existing access control panels, eliminating wire between locks and access control panel interfaces and providing a complete solution at each opening. Implementing a wireless solution takes significantly less time than its traditional hardwired counterpart.
- By Beverly Vigue
- Jan 07, 2008
Environmental Tectonics Corp.'s Simulation Division recently announced the delivery of a new training scenario to the Southeastern Pennsylvania regional counterterrorism task force (CTTF) for its Advanced Disaster Management Simulator, ADMS-COMMAND.
ADT Security Services announced recently it has reached an agreement with the Oklahoma State School Boards Association to work together to create and deliver workshops and other information vehicles aimed at helping the OSSBA’s 569 current and prospective member school districts further secure their campuses.
The National Crime Prevention Council (NCPC) has announced the launch of McGruff SafeGuard, a free service for parents to monitor and safeguard their kids’ online activities.
AT&T Inc. recently announced the availability of interoperable RFID and GPS-based mobile resource management (MRM) solutions for the K-12 education segment.
Administrators at Haltom High School in Haltom City, Texas, wanted their school’s ID cards to be useful, but never did they imagine the cards would help thwart a drug dealer. “We have used student and faculty ID cards for the last decade,” said Rick Mauderer, associate principal at Haltom High School and the person responsible for the school’s ID program. “As a high school of more than 2,600 students, there is no way we can know who every student is, especially with substitute teachers in the building.
- By Sharon Steinhoff-Smith
- Dec 04, 2007
In Cincinnati, when you say “school’s out,” it has a whole different meaning. That’s because all 65 schools in the Cincinnati Public School District—encompassing preschool through grade 12—are part of a massive, $1 billion facilities master plan that will completely change the face of the city’s educational infrastructure.
- By Jeff Hendrickson
- Dec 04, 2007
Violent and property crime rates at the nation's schools during 2005 -- 57 such crimes per 1,000 students age 12 or older -- were statistically unchanged from the 2004 rate of 55 victimizations per 1,000 students, according to a new report.
As the public becomes aware of school security and its shortcomings, those in the security industry acknowledge the value of new products and innovations in the field.
- By Megan Weadock
- Nov 29, 2007
The Shasta Union High School District in California includes four high schools in different locations with more than 6,000 students and 540 faculty members. A new IP video system helped lead to a 98 percent reduction in school vandalism and theft.
Go to the Department of Justice’s online national sex offender public registry, pick a major city and select an urban—or even suburban—neighborhood. Most likely, there will be anywhere from a few to 40 or more registered sex offenders within walking distance of the neighborhood’s public elementary school.
- By Patrick V. Fiel Sr.
- Nov 15, 2007
School security directors often keep a keen eye on the latest security technologies that come to market, and then deploy these solutions to ensure their schools have the best technology to protect students and employees, deter and catch vandals and keep the bad guys out.
- By Carol Enman
- Nov 13, 2007
Blackboard Inc. and Sony recently announced a partnership to support Sony FeliCa contactless technology in the Blackboard Commerce Suite.