from Pierce County Herald.com In this day and age of mass shootings and terrorism, besides the continuing possibility of natural disasters, Ellsworth school officials are ready to respond. A school crisis plan has been compiled by district administrators and approved by the local school board. The 35-page document is intended to guide officials through the [...]

By Leischen Stelter, Security Director News On the third anniversary of the Virginia Tech massacre that left 32 people dead, the government has issued a report on the prevalence and growth of violent attacks on the campuses of the nation’s institutions of higher education. The report, Campus Attacks: Targeted Violence Affecting Institutions Of Higher Education, [...]

By Brian McNeill, DailyProgress.com The General Assembly approved a measure March 13th that would allow campus threat assessment teams to discuss internally criminal and mental health records of students deemed to be a potential threat to safety. The teams — which include law enforcement, university administration, mental health providers, residence life officials and others — [...]

Press Release from ADT Security Services Despite terrible incidents of violence that have been reported on a few college and university campuses in the U.S. and Canada, most are generally safe places. However, there are many common campus crimes such as theft, robbery, rape and assault that regularly occur. In fact, the U.S. Department of [...]

By Leischen Stelter, Security Director News New regulations scheduled to take effect this summer will require institutions of higher learning to change the way they develop and publish their emergency plans as well as how they report incidents. New amendments to the Jeanne Clery Act, which were enacted into law in 2008 in the wake [...]

By Lindsey Reiser, ABC News Guns on campus: not everyone wants it, but in Arizona it might just become a reality. Most universities do not allow students or faculty with concealed carry permits to bring a weapon to school, but a bill is currently moving through the state senate that would allow faculty to do [...]

By Adam Curtis, The Sierra Vista Herald As the debate heats up on whether to allow guns on university and community college campuses, some students and faculty members at University of Arizona South shared their thoughts Wednesday. Associated Students of the University of Arizona South have not researched or discussed the issue enough to take [...]

By Jamon Smith, Tuscaloosa News The muddled chatter coming from the small radio strapped to a Tuscaloosa County Sheriff’s Office deputy’s hip ceased for a moment as a message — clear and precise — replaced it. ‘Shots fired! Shots fired!’ a voice on the radio repeated. The deputy, wearing a bullet-proof vest under his shirt [...]

By Monte Whaley, Sky-Hi Daily News Nearly every college and university in the state bars students from having weapons on campus. But at Colorado’s three largest institutions of higher learning, there are large caches of student-owned weaponry that would be the envy of many police departments. “We have quite a variety on hand,” said Wendy [...]