The Alabama Legislature has authorized city and county school systems to hire armed security officers to protect students.

The Chicago Transit Agency has begun replacing hundreds of contract security guards with full- and part-time CTA customer-service employees.

Transitioning from the public sector, including law enforcement and military professions, to the private sector security industry can be a difficult task, but Time Warner Cable is sponsoring an event and networking luncheon at the ASIS New York City Conference and Expo to guide the change. 

Underpaid or under-trained security officers are only one of the gaps in event security, according to a USA Today report. 

It’s important for security professionals to understand their ownership of the facility they protect, and this could be difficult to foster in contracted security officials. However, several Chicago establishments have gone a long way to build that sense in some of the city’s landmark facilities. 

The island nation has hired nearly 300 additional security personnel to ensure bank safety during the national reopening. 

Allied Barton security officers recently helped secure annual meetings at The International Monetary Fund (IMF) in Washington, D.C.

On July 20, 2012, moviegoers at a theater in Aurora, CO, were seated for the 12:05 a.m. screening of the new Batman movie. Unexpectedly, a man began shooting.

The FBI said it has identified the thieves who pulled off the 1990 theft of 13 artworks from Boston's Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, which stands as the costliest art theft in U.S. history.

Budget cuts have left state justices without security protection after they leave government facilities, one justice says.