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NCPC named School Safety Partners a National Funding Resource in its publication, Be Safe and Sound in School: A Guide to Best Practices. To download the pdf booklet, click McGruff the Crime Dog above.
Live grenade unearthed at Glendale Community College
The discovery prompted the evacuation of the entire campus and several nearby residential buildings. A daycare center on the campus was also evacuated, and John Muir Elementary School was placed under lockdown. ...Explsosive device forces New Mexico school to evacuate
Los Lunas Middle School in Albuquerque was evacuated after what was called an improvised explosive device was found. The city police department bomb squad moved the device to a secure location....Gas leak causes Ohio high school to evacuate
The smell of natural gas additives triggered an evacuation at Northwood High School before Columbia Gas crews located escaped natural gas in the crawlspace and turned off the gas supply to the school....University of Virginia funds disappear to China
Sources say cyber thieves used a computer virus to steal online banking credentials for university accounts at BB&T Bank and initiated a $996,000 fraudulent wire transfer to the Agricultural Bank of China.Yale releases toxic foam into Oyster River
Officials said tens of thousands of gallons of a foam-water mixture spilled out of a Yale storage building and into the river when a water pipe broke and fire protection system foam spilled from a tank.8th annual REMS Grants announced
Here is the full list of 98 Readiness and Emergency Management for Schools (REMS) grant winners this year, with the biggest grant -- $672,155 -- going to Prince William County, VA.New Jersey lawmakers address campus security
A2405, approved 80-0 by the Assembly, directs each institution of higher education to develop and coordinate a comprehensive disaster preparedness plan and run it by Homeland Security.Talking to Kids about the Gulf Oil Spill
NYC students and parents offered free school-based email accounts
K-12 learning technology company ePals will provide its secure web-hosted SchoolMail service to the New York City Department of Education at no cost for five years beginning in the 2010-2011 school year.
New SWAT Tactics for School Shootings
Here is an exclusive look at the latest police & SWAT tactics for violent Columbine-style school shootings and intruder attacks. This full-scale exercise at a high school in Utah shows how Federal training for school staff now allows schools to partner up with local first responders and improve school safety. New technologies turn basic school radios and surveillance cameras into tools that help police and SWAT teams achieve the pinpoint accuracy of a smart bomb when it comes time to neutralize violent offenders. This video was produced using only the amazing unrehearsed radio dialog that was captured during the exercise and the synchronized video footage caught on 8 different surveillance cameras mounted outside and in the school hallways. As you follow the shooters you will notice exercise facilitators operating the smoke machine and dispensing ammo to the perps as they take hostages. The maneuvers of the three law enforcment teams seen here are based on the information they receive moment-by-moment, with no scripting. You will hear the school principal help provide crucial behind-the-scenes support so that the teams can quickly box in the gunmen before rushing through the last door to take them down. (August 23, 2010)
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