NYPD Commissioner James O’Neill joined local politicians and school officials earlier this month to demand that state legislators push through a bill to add hundreds of additional surveillance cameras on streets in school zones.

The Broward League of Cities' task force on school security released a 93-page report with 100 suggestions this week, including increasing school hardening, reformed discipline policies and access to mental health resources.

Governor Chris Sununu will boost New Hampshire’s campaign to improve security in public schools by another $10 million, bringing total school security spending to nearly $30 million over the past year.

The first-ever state review at all 1,800 schools in Tennessee is underway.

Officials installed more than 20 surveillance cameras at the Randolf Career Technical Education Center as part of Project Green Light, a project started in 2016 to create safer neighborhoods.

Under a New York City Council proposal, all schools would have security cameras by 2024.

The Plano, Texas, ISD board of trustees approved a $2.7 million expenditure to update the Dallas-Fort Worth area schools’ video surveillance systems over the next year and a half.

As the 2017-18 school year gets underway, many school districts are testing out newly installed and upgraded security systems.

When it comes to security upgrades, integration and education are enabling school security leaders to shop around.

The 2012 Indicators of School Crime and Safety report also notes that 77 percent of students (age 12-18) reported having security cameras in their schools.