‘That’s the Way We’ve Always Done It’ Doesn’t Cut It in School Security Anymore Campus Safety Voices

Being proactive with a unified approach to school security and safety is critical to preventing and responding to incidents. However, historically most school districts have taken the exact opposite approach. Traditionally, they’ve waited to address their pressing safety and security vulnerabilities until after a major incident has occurred, according to Michael Garcia, HID Global’s safe schools national end user director. “Force protection, defense in depth, qualitative third party, ind...