Tag: school security
Alertus grant program provides free mass notification technology
July 7, 2020SSN Staff
BELTSVILLE, Md.—Alertus Technologies, a leader in emergency mass notification solutions, partnered with California IT in Education (CITE) to provide an emergency preparedness grant valuing up to $75,000 to one qualified member annually.
“An effective emergency notification in a school environment is more important today than ever before,” CITE Executive Director, Andrea Bennet, said in the announcement. “This grant will help schools complete their notification system with no implementation...
Allied Universal helps schools, universities
June 16, 2020SSN Staff
SANTA ANA, Calif.—As educational leaders continue the challenging conversation about what the new normal will look like for students across the nation, Allied Universal is helping school administrators and campus safety departments plan and prepare for students returning to school. Allied Universal’s more than 7,500 campus security professionals safeguard nearly 700 schools/universities nationwide. “Institutional stakeholders are asking questions about what the ‘new normal’ will look...
COVID-19 funding supports K-12 schools, institutions of higher learning
June 15, 2020SSN Staff
YARMOUTH, Maine—Coronavirus has disrupted the education system as was known, with a large portion of the nation’s students “educating from home” during the latter part of the 2019-2020 school year. In some areas, next school year doesn’t look any different. In fact, tax revenue losses could sharply cut education funding.As part of the March-approved $2 trillion stimulus package, Congress allocated approximately $13.2 billion of the $30.75 billion allotted to the Education Stabilization...
VIVOTEK secures National Center for International Schools' Campus
December 16, 2019SSN Staff
SAN JOSE, Calif.—The National Center for International Schools (NCIS) houses both the Chinese American International School, founded in 1981, and the French American International School, founded in 1962 in San Francisco. Each school joined in an educational and bond-generating venture — NCIS — in 1994 and purchased the former Caltrans building located in the middle of San Francisco on Oak Street.
Both schools are pre-kindergarten through 12th grade and pride themselves on rigorous...
REMO slams the door on intruders, fire and more
October 9, 2019Ginger Hill, Managing Editor
ENGLEWOOD CLIFFS, N.J.—With such advanced security technologies and products available on the market, it's easy to dismiss the basics. Take the humble door, for example. It stands tall and proud, marking the entrance and exit of homes and buildings almost taken for granted as just a simple thing needed when building a house or structure just another fixture. Yet, the door can be much more!Back in December 2017, the investigative team of NBC affiliate KGW in Portland, Oregon embarked on...
From the mouth of a director of safety and security at a U.S. school district
September 11, 2019Ginger Hill, Managing Editor
I just completed an article about perimeter school security, “The undogging debacle: perimeter security in a school environment,” in which I had the opportunity to speak with a director of safety and security for a school district, who also has a 14-year background at the local police department, most recently of which was supervisor for the School Resource Officer Unit. He told me something that really opened my eyes and I think that all security professionals involved in the school...
The undogging debacle: perimeter security in a school environment
September 11, 2019Ginger Hill, Managing Editor
YARMOUTH, Maine—Across the nation, teachers and staff at K-12 schools recently welcomed new and vetted students and their parents to campus to begin the 2019-2020 school year full of quality education with challenging, relevant and meaningful curriculums in a safe, nurturing environment that is conducive to teaching and learning.Many educational-related studies and research projects throughout the years have found that for students to acquire knowledge, physical safety is a top priority. For...
S.A.F.E. donates emergency alert platform to U.S. schools, colleges and universities
April 24, 2019Ginger Hill, Managing Editor
NASHUA, N.H.—A non-glamorous side of being in the security industry is hearing about, witnessing the aftermath and reporting on school shootings. Since the Parkland, Fla. shooting in which 19-year-old Nikolas Cruz, a former student at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, opened fire on his former school's campus with a semi-automatic rifle, claiming the lives of 17 people and injuring another 17, based on CNN's math and on average, a school shooting occurs every 11.8 days in the United States....
Another step toward safer schools
January 16, 2019Paul Ragusa, Editor
Creating safer schools is a major dilemma facing our nation today, but thankfully it is one that some of the best minds are coming together to solve. The Partner Alliance for Safer Schools (PASS) has taken a major step by creating safety and security guidelines and standards of practice that all schools can turn to and follow, guidelines and standards that come from lessons learned from past tragedies and ones that were averted, and from experiences and expertise from leaders in security and education,...
SIA questions GSA pricing policy
October 8, 2014Amy Canfield
WASHINGTON—Uncertainties surrounding the General Service Administration's new schedule pricing policies for products and services need to be further examined, according to Jake Parker, government relations director at the Security Industry Association.SIA's procurement policy working group discussed the significant change for federal contractors at the recent ASIS show in Atlanta, Parker told Security Systems News.With this year's “Fair and Reasonable Pricing” policy, the GSA says...