Written by: Amy Rock – Senior Editor of Campus Safety This article, originally posted on Sept. 23, 2019, was updated on Feb. 18, 2022, to reflect current data. Please note that these statistics aren’t updated regularly. Always check with … read more

  Written by: Andrew Ujifusa, Education Week, Bethesda, MD (TNS) – School districts that have relied on emergency aid to recover from floods, fires, and storms are more likely to serve large shares of students of color, economically disadvantaged children, … read more

  Written by: Michael Munger “You’re the professional. Is this kid a threat or not?” That’s the question my director asked, fingers drumming on the athletic calendar drafts stacked on his desk. My waffling response had not provided him the … read more

  Written by: Campus Safety Staff The Naval Postgraduate School‘s Center for Homeland Defense and Security (CHDS), in conjunction with the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), maintains a K-12 school shooting database project as part of their Advanced Thinking in Homeland … read more

  Written by: Dan Gundry Campuses must have thought-out incident management and security plans to keep life safety and asset protection a priority. Some would argue it’s even more pertinent today, given not only the lessons learned from various emergency … read more

FDA Warns of Apache Log4j Cybersecurity Vulnerabilities in Medical Devices Written by: Amy Rock Senior Editor, Campus Safety The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) warned Friday that widespread cybersecurity vulnerabilities in commonly used software could affect medical devices by … read more

  Written by: Amy Rock “One shared purpose.” If the University of Texas Police at Houston were on the hunt for a slogan,that may just be a front runner. The largest medical center in the world, the Texas Medical Center … read more

  Written by: Amy Rock A patient enters a Texas teaching hospital and under supervision, a nursing student starts the patient’s IV. The patient’s significant other doesn’t like that she is in discomfort. He pulls a knife out of his … read more

  Written by: Ryan McKinnon, Sarasota Herald-Tribune, FL (TNS) – Amber Rylak was pushing the screaming stranger with all her weight, trying to keep him out of her classroom at Emma E. Booker Elementary School. Behind her, a class of … read more

  Written by: Sgt. Stefan Bjes and Adam Doughran Screaming, crying, uncontrollable physical outbursts, frustration, or complete inaction and unresponsiveness: all potential behavioral reactions to emergency drills for students with special needs. Many current state laws require schools to conduct … read more