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November 7, 2022
The Safety Implications and Importance of Total Coverage
Our nation seems to be locked in an unending battle to keep our school communities safe havens for learning and growth, free from violent acts like the active shooter tragedies that have left in their wake unimaginable devastation. Unceasingly, education and law enforcement officials wrestle with what to do to keep their students, faculty, staff, …
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October 7, 2022
Apps Aren’t Enough: How Holistic, Comprehensive Approaches to School Safety Save Lives
In the wake of numerous school shootings nationwide, it is becoming a hard-learned but valuable lesson for many school administrators and law enforcement officials that effective lockdown response goes far beyond just a text message notification system. In fact, Uvalde Consolidated Independent School District (CISD) held a school board meeting with concerned families and community …
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September 8, 2022
Empowering Schools With Insight That Helps Protect Their Communities
With the Parkland school shooting trial making headlines and the memory of the recent Uvalde, Texas, shooting in mind, there’s no more pressing a time than now to focus on school district campus-wide safety protocols. At Eastern DataComm, we’re as committed as ever to empowering school districts across the country to take proactive steps in …
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August 2, 2022
Back-To-School: Considerations For Safety + Security In The New School Year
A new school year is upon us. In light of the continuous string of headlines speaking to mass shootings and acts of violence taking place on campuses across the country, it’s important to focus on what can be done to ensure safety and security as we enter this academic year. Whether that means updating an …
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July 1, 2022
Technology and the School Safety Ecosystem: Fostering Safer Schools
There are a variety of channels that encompass the ‘safety ecosystem’ in schools. School safety and police officers, training, threat assessment, procedures and protocols for emergencies, compliance, and technology infrastructure essentials like emergency notification systems, video surveillance, and access control systems can all play a vital role in keeping schools and districts safe before, during, …
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