Securing School Campuses: Harnessing Innovative Technologies

So what are some innovative technologies that schools are using to help secure their campuses, things like visitor management, who's on the school campus besides, you know, the students and the teachers. The technologies now win inputting the names and the identifications of these folks runs a very select and limited background check. So should a crisis or emergency happen, the same types of software can be used for reunification, who are the kids being released too, is it apparent a guardian a friend, is it someone who is supposed to be in Karen custody of that student, facial recognition software and so leveraging these types of technologies to help get ahead of problems as fast as they possibly can. Often heard is that gunshot technology The idea being if gunfire is heard, quote unquote, by the system, or again, using the recognition software to the cameras to recognize a firearm, whether it be a pistol or a rifle, trying to use the technologies as an early warning system may be giving the few critical moments or even seconds to help lock a school down, have law enforcement respond and to take care of the situation long before comes more dangerous than it already is automatic reporting systems. So that way a school doesn't have to necessarily pick up a felon valid nine one one to get help gonna continue to see technologies taken from the private sector and even sometimes the military sector as they became cost effective as these technologies become more reliable, being used more commonplace in schools and really other organizations as well to help keep them safe. Behavioral threat assessments, or sometimes heard as threat assessments or threat assessment teams or becoming much more commonplace in schools and even organizations than before. The US Secret Service has identified seven markers or behavioral indicators that lead up to targeted acts of violence or act new shooter events. And there's another series of behaviors that when connected with workplace violence and other indicators can indicate that someone is about to conduct either a violent event or is going down the pathway of violence. Having a team to put all the pictures together, all of the bits and pieces and the puzzles and behaviors and the report of things that may have been concerning to other students or even to coworkers, that we can try to get ahead of the problem and try to prevent violence before it happens. Now, the prevention comes by way of resources, counseling, those types of things, and occasionally law enforcement involvement prior to the event currently, especially in the edge education in the street, what we're seeing is a lack of good knowledge and a lack of education of the members of the behavioral assessment team. Really the emerging importance, even more so than before, behind behavioral threat assessment teams, really underscores the prevention component when it comes to school violence, workplace violence, but also to really help the individual before they cross the path into the criminal realm and hurting other people are worse, it actually really helps them and gets them the help that they need to continue a pathway, a back to success, as opposed to violence.