#school security

I’ve been following Campus Guardian Angel for about a year now, and at this point I feel like I should get a punch card. The Texas company sells drones that are supposed to swoop in during a school shooting, blast pepper gel, flash strobe lights, and physically slam into an attacker before real damage is done. Justin Marston and his cofounder, a former Navy SEAL, say the whole concept came to…

Abia State Governor, His Excellency, Dr. Alex Chioma Otti, OFR, has described school security as a critical component of his administration’s education reform agenda. The Governor stated this on Wednesday, July 8, in his office when he received a delegation from the National Safe School Integrated Command and Intelligence System, led by its National Commander, Dr. Umannah Samuel Amadi. Governor…

Colorado is trying to confront the reality that no community is immune from the threat of a school shooting. But again, they’re going about it the wrong way. A recent report from Colorado news station KOAA highlighted a training program in La Junta where rural law enforcement officers and school resource officers participated in active shooter response exercises conducted by FASTER Colorado. The…

For years, I’ve argued that putting more armed officers in schools is not the magic solution many people think it is. After school shootings, especially high-profile ones, politicians inevitably start calling for more school resource officers, more security, and more police presence. The idea sounds simple enough. If there are more cops in schools, surely schools will be safer. The problem is…

Georgia is now the latest state spending more than half a million taxpayer dollars on anti-school shooter drones for public schools, because apparently that’s where school safety policy is headed now. The state budget included $550,000 for a pilot program from a company called Campus Guardian Angel that will potentially place remotely operated drones inside five Georgia high schools. Meanwhile,…

Governor Ron DeSantis has now signed legislation expanding Florida’s so-called guardian program to public colleges and universities across the state. The move comes a little more than a year after the shooting at Florida State University that left two people dead and several others wounded outside the student union during finals week. State officials are presenting the new law as a commonsense…

Jeffco Public Schools in Colorado are once again talking about metal detectors in the wake of last year’s shooting at Evergreen High School, where a student shot two classmates before turning the gun on himself. It’s the kind of conversation that follows almost every school shooting. Something visible has to be done. Something people can point to and say, “That will fix it.” So now there’s been…