How Effective Is Your School’s Fire Evacuation Plan?
Recommendations to help make your facility safer With the academic year in full swing, schools across the country are beginning their first rounds of fire drills. As alarms blare and…
School Staffers Share Safety, Security Responsibilities
When it comes to school safety and security, administrators, teachers, and campus support staff are all members of the security team. This includes custodians and janitors, front office staff, nurses…
Three Strategies to Improve School Parking Area Security
How safe is your school’s parking lot or garage? From unauthorized visitors to vandalism to property theft and assault, school parking areas supply criminals with easy targets and tempting assets.…
Ask Sonitrol: What Does Verified Response Mean?
Taking the guesswork out of electronic security At Sonitrol Great Lakes, our verified responsive monitoring framework guarantees better results and faster police response times. And with fewer accounts per monitoring…
Know the Facts: Fire Detection Safety
One of the most basic needs to protect our children while they are in school is a fire safety system. Children (and staff) spend the majority of their day inside…
School Break-Ins: Make Them a Learning Moment
School break-ins, vandalism and theft have become a growing and expensive problem for the nation’s 84,000 public schools. How big and how expensive? The U.S. Department of Education estimates that…
Summer Break is the Perfect Time to Beef Up School Security Readiness
With the traditional school year ending across the Great Lakes region, the summer recess is an ideal time for schools to plan, implement, and communicate enhanced school security practices before…
Don’t Be Complacent With Your School’s Security This Summer!
7 Easy Tips to Securing your School Campus Be sure you continue to follow your security procedures when students are in the building for summer school. Consider changing the schedules…
Armed Security Officers on the Rise in U.S. Schools: Study
Critics weigh in on educational impact. Armed security officers are becoming more prevalent at America's schools, according to a recent study amid a heated debate over whether teachers and other school…
Arming Our Teachers: Polls Show Divisive Debate
President Trump is all in. So is the NRA, and some school districts. But critics are blasting back. Not on their syllabus. More chaos. More danger. Amidst talk of assault…