The U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee passed U.S. Sen. Mark Warner’s CAMPUS Safety Act, which would consolidate federal campus safety efforts into the National Center for Campus Public Safety.
With 38 primary and secondary schools spread across 92 square miles, Green Bay Area Public School District needed to upgrade its multi-school analog CCTV system to better protect its 21,000 students.
While it may seem easy to address separate threats in separate ways, there are advantages to taking a more integrated approach to the use of security technology on campus.
While conventional credentials such as visitor passes and access devices enable physical access, the underlying issue is to verify, validate and track the individuals holding these credentials. The ability to effectively manage identities campus-wide improves security to best protect people, property and assets.
Northside Independent School District's decision to RFID-enable student IDs to better facilitate attendance-taking and student tracking in emergencies is under fire, again.
