Vermont Governor Phil Scott announced that 69 public, private and independent schools across Vermont have been awarded funds to make safety improvements to school infrastructure.
Plum School District in Pennsylvania built a $157,000 20-by-18 foot security facility with features such as bullet-resistant glass and many large monitors that enable access to more than 360 video surveillance cameras throughout the district.
For many children, the excitement of being at school is tempered by caution and worry. While active shooter incidents grab headlines and are terrifying, school bullying is occurring both on and off school campuses every day.
A new study by the U.S. Secret Service's National Threat Assessment Center (NTAC) says that a majority of school shooters showed warning signs before committing their crimes, and most of them were bullied.
Using statistics from news reports, law enforcement incident reports, private agency injury reports, US workplace violence data and our own in-house database curated and analyzed during the past sixteen years, Private Officer National has mapped out the hours and days that an officer is most likely to be harmed.
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