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A Kansas City lawmaker says Missouri should arm school teachers with pepper spray as an alternative to guns.

It was the second deadliest mass shooting by a single person in American history, after the 2007 Virginia Tech massacre, and the second deadliest mass murder at a U.S. elementary school. As a mother of two young children, I am still anguished over “Newtown,” as the events are often referred to. Guy Grace is, as well.

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.”

According to the National Conference of State Legislatures, only two states have laws requiring carbon monoxide monitors in schools.

Specially trained dogs might be the next big thing in school violence prevention. The animals, which could cost upwards of $10,000 after training, could be trained to detect firearms and drugs in schools.

“We treat everyone, from kindergarten on up, with respect,” says Joseph Perchetti, Supervisor of Security for the Radnor, Penn., Public School District. “They are our customers, and their taxes pay our salaries. We go the extra mile to make sure they are secure and to ensure that they can focus on education.”

Michigan schools would have to be more transparent about how they conduct emergency safety drills under a bill approved in the state House.

A survey of American parents has found that when their children experience cyberbullying, 36 percent of parents would turn to law enforcement to address the issue.

Philadelphia Police Chief Inspector Carl Holmes was named the security chief for the Philadelphia School District.

An East Haven, Ct. man who has filmed what he says are security gaps in security at a middle school has been arrested.