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About 54.4 million new $100 bills and 4 million uncut sheets of notes had “inadequate security” at a Bureau of Engraving and Printing plant in Washington, according to an inspector with the Treasury Department. The audit also criticized security at the bureau’s Fort Worth, Texas, facility.

More than 76 percent that are part of the National Hospital Preparedness Program met 90 percent or more of measures for all-hazards preparedness in 2009, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services announced

A new report provides a detailed view of safety at Chicago Public Schools. University of Chicago researchers wanted to know what contributes to a student or teacher’s sense of safety in the school.

The White House unveiled a cyber-security proposal that it hopes Congress will use as a framework for legislation.

Corruption has grown in the past few years and affected 10.3 percent of Mexican households’ transactions and requests for public services in 2010, Transparencia Mexicana, or TM, said in a new report, which looked at 35 common interactions between the public and government institutions.

 

New York City will launch a new national emergency alert system by the end of the year that will send messages to cellphones during disasters.

U.S. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood announced several new measures that the U.S. Department of Transportation’s Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) is taking to help ensure that passengers traveling by bus are as safe as possible.

The National Institute for Prevention of Workplace Violence, Inc. has released its 2011 Workplace Violence Fact Sheet.  The fact sheet is a repository of information, statistics and charts on workplace violence presented to give Human Resources, Security, Risk Management and Operational Managers the most current information on workplace violence. The National Institute for Prevention of Workplace Violence, Inc. has been at the forefront of reporting information about workplace violence prevention for more than ten years and businesses rely on it to provide thorough, timely and accurate information on workplace violence. This is its second fact sheet on workplace violence.

May 20 is the deadline for the Matthew Simeone ASIS Award for Public Private Partnership Excellence, which recognizes outstanding achievement by members of an ASIS chapter in the advocacy, development, implementation and practice of public private cooperation for public safety.

Following close on the heels of the major Sony hack that exposed millions of accounts to criminals, LastPass notified its subscribers of a major hack on their service, exposing about one and a quarter accounts to these cyber criminals.