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.

Changes to New York city's student safety act includes reporting of when kids are handcuffed in schools and when school safety agents are injured in scuffles with kids.

Integrated video surveillance solutions can prove invaluable to school security executives.

According to the School Crime Supplement (SCS) 22 percent of students ages 12–18 have been bullied at school, an amount lower than years past.

In Arkansas, every public school student, faculty and staff member in the state will now be protected by a panic button. 

Ohio's building standards board took a strong position against the installation of barricade devices on classroom doors in the event of an active shooter.
 

A new law, "Gabby's Law for Student Safety", will hold a school district responsible if a child has a dangerous walk to school.
 

An Iowa school district is outfitting its principals and assistant principals with small, clip-on video cameras.

Mass killings and school shootings spread "contagiously," a new study found.

Under proposed legislation, schools would have to report when and how their emergency safety drills are conducted.