by admin | Sep 25, 2019 | Security
The Ohio School Safety Center (OSSC), a division of Ohio’s Department of Homeland Security, “will assist local schools and law enforcement in preventing, preparing for, and responding to threats and acts of violence, including self-harm, through a holistic,...
by admin | Jul 31, 2019 | Security
Serious budget pressures are now threatening school safety. In recent weeks, officials with the city of Louisville have announced that they may have to reduce the number of officers available to offer security services to schools, including school resource officers...
by admin | Jun 19, 2019 | Active Shooter Detection, Security
Kentucky has taken significant steps towards implementing some of the changes mandated in the school safety legislation passed by the General Assembly earlier this year. This week, Ben Wilcox was named Kentucky school security marshal, a role created by the School...
by admin | May 28, 2019 | Active Shooter Detection
Were it not for Keanon Lowe, we might have been reading very different headlines last week. Lowe, a former wide receiver for the University of Oregon, tackled and disarmed a student who entered a classroom at Parkrose High School in Portland, Oregon, wielding a...
by admin | Feb 16, 2019 | Active Shooter Detection
A year ago this week, a young gunman entered Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla. and took the lives of 17 people. The Parkland shooting was another in a long, sad list of mass shooting incidents that seems to grow every year. Students at a vigil...