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Editor's note: the following is a report courtesy of SDM Magazine, http://www.sdmmag.com/articles/91827-us-stadium-security-expert-reacts-to-paris-attacks

When terrorists attacked several locations in Paris last Friday night — including the Stade de France stadium where a friendly soccer match was taking place — U.S. venues immediately took notice.

University of Texas faculty council unanimously passed a resolution to ban guns from classrooms, laboratories, offices and dorms.

Chris Houtz, a sergeant with the Lehigh University Police Department Sergeant, received the Jeanne Clery Award for Campus Safety. 

Students at Texas Christian University won't be able to carry their guns on campus next year.

The governor of Indiana announced more than $10 million in school security funds to be distributed to hundreds of schools and school corporations for threat assessments, installation of security systems or the hiring of school resource officers.

California Governor Jerry Brown vetoed a bill that would require licensing, background checks and better training of security officers in the state. 

Villanova University will add armed police officers starting next fall.
 

A new survey suggests that campuses nationwide might be unprepared to deal with an active shooter.

Security officers and private investigators would receive a single identification card they could take from job to job under a bill before Ohio lawmakers.

Former police official George Anderson has been tapped to oversee security at the World Trade Center.