Articles Tagged with ''campus security''

For Johns Hopkins in Baltimore, it’s a neighborhood initiative program that looks beyond traditional campus security and that integrates university special police officers with AlliedBarton security officers. The result: recognition in the Higher Education sector in the 2013 Security 500 report.

Northwestern University police are creating a Community Emergency Response Team program to train volunteers in emergency preparedness in an effort to enhance campus safety and security.

Penn State University is in the process of installing more than 600 security cameras in dormitories and common areas of its main campus.

Mass notification has become a key element of campus safety and security. John Dellacontrada, assistant vice president of media relations at the University of Buffalo, New York, says he sought a “solution that we could deploy quickly and consistently, one that would work on desktop and mobile devices to get a message broadcast via various ways and that could work with our existing emergency public address system.”

New head coaching agreements at universities specifically reference the Clery Act, a federal statute requiring schools to collect information on alleged crimes and make timely warnings of ones that suggest an ongoing threat.

The Texas Legislature has approved a bill allowing students with proper licenses to keep guns in their cars on college campuses.

Montana Governor Steve Bullock turned back a bill that would have allowed college students to keep guns on campus.

Texas A&M University has been chosen to participate in the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Campus Resilience Pilot Program (CR Pilot). 

Explosive devices and a dead body have been found in a University of Central Florida dorm room.

This whitepaper from Guardly Safe Campus compares the swiftness of incident response efforts by university campus security between new smartphone applications and existing methods of reporting.