Las Vegas hotels and casinos operated by MGM Resorts Entertainment and Caesars Entertainment will soon begin providing housekeepers and cocktail waitresses with a panic button.

The Smithsonian Institution wants to ramp up security at the National Zoo in Washington DC.

One northern New Mexico school board may arm its security officers on campus.

Pennsylvania Governor Tom Wolf has signed school safety legislation.

A new FBI report on active shooters says that mass shooters don’t explode out of nowhere—they plan and prepare. Most have no diagnosable mental illness. And their attacks are almost always preceded by behaviors that stir apprehension in people close to them, possible warning signs that crop up over a lengthy period of time.

Chicago hotels are now rolling out “panic buttons” for hotel staff to address the threat of workers being “sexually assaulted or harassed by guests,” according to The Chicago Tribune.

Ohio State University's board of trustees approved a resolution that would allow some off-duty officers to carry concealed weapons on campus.

One in five school police officers say their school is not prepared to handle an active-shooter situation, according to a survey of school resource officers conducted by the Education Week Research Center.

Louisiana schoolchildren will be allowed to carry bulletproof backpacks to class, under a bill expected to become law.