Roselle Catholic High School in Roselle, New Jersey recently received a grant to upgrade security measures, allowing the school to implement a new intercom system with emergency communications and lockdown features.
New bill introduced in Vermont would prohibit school districts from contracting law-enforcement to be regular, in-person school resource officers if passed.
The Georgia Emergency Management and Homeland Security Agency started a new program to help schools identify physical security vulnerabilities at their facilities and improve safety and threat response protocols.
The Martin County School District in Florida upgraded its emergency communications system. Teachers and administrators use a card attached to their lanyards similar to a credit card. When repeatedly clicked, the cards issues an emergency alert, which cues sirens, flashing lights and communications over the speakers such as "This is a lockdown."
Duval County Public Schools in Florida have a 15-year priority plan to use a half-penny sales tax increase to improve the school through safety and security measures and major renovations.
Russell Bundy, Director of Security at the Leander Independent School District will conduct Security's free Solutions by Sector webinar on K-12 Security and how security leader in school positions can prepare for and emerge from situations of chaos that may happen.
The town of Oxford, Connecticut and its public schools will receive a grant from the U.S. Department of Justice, Community Oriented Policing Services to create a security operations center (SOC) with three personnel monitoring the district's four school campuses.