Officials installed more than 20 surveillance cameras at the Randolf Career Technical Education Center as part of Project Green Light, a project started in 2016 to create safer neighborhoods.
The Plano, Texas, ISD board of trustees approved a $2.7 million expenditure to update the Dallas-Fort Worth area schools’ video surveillance systems over the next year and a half.
The 2012 Indicators of School Crime and Safety report also notes that 77 percent of students (age 12-18) reported having security cameras in their schools.
New surveillance cameras in West Aurora, Ill., schools will enable first responders to get a more solid picture of an incident before arriving at the scene.
Integrated network cameras are taking on all kinds of new responsibilities in schools, including running iPhone-style applications, reading license plates and even talking back to misbehaving students.
