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May 5, 2023
School Safety Lessons Learned from the 2022–2023 School Year
While school shooting tragedies continue to flood the headlines of our local and national news outlets (with 16 school shootings this year alone), district stakeholders are doing what they can to prevent such incidents from occurring in their own school communities. And if you find yourself among those committed to making their school communities safer, …
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April 24, 2023
6 Key Insights on Emergency Notification From Our Latest Live School Safety Seminar Series
Our Eastern DataComm team recently hosted a series of live, in-person seminars spanning New Jersey, Pennsylvania, New York, and Connecticut. School officials and stakeholders whose responsibility it is to ensure the safety of their campuses came from far and wide to join us for this educational experience. The series was incredibly well-received by our attendees …
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March 1, 2023
5 Can’t-Miss Grant Opportunities to Fund School Safety Improvements
Did you know that there are a variety of funding resources to improve your school’s safety technology? In fact, after the Parkland Florida tragedy in 2018, the government instituted a 1-billion dollars in spending over 10 years dedicated to improving school safety. Now schools are beginning to utilize that funding in earnest. And in order …
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February 1, 2023
Top 5 Reasons to Attend Our Seminars
In light of the tragic school shooting in Uvalde, Texas, our Eastern DataComm team has structured our latest seminar around addressing the issues that led to the tragedy that the school community experienced. And we did not offer this perspective as a way to point fingers or lay blame. Instead, we did so to underscore …
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January 5, 2023
The Benefits of Enhancing Your District’s Comprehensive School Safety Ecosystem with Video Surveillance and Access Control
A truly tragic and unfortunate truth is that the number of school shootings across the country continues to rise. Now, more than ever, it is incredibly important to consider ways to ensure greater security of our school district buildings and grounds, including video surveillance and access control systems. At Eastern DataComm, our proprietary Lockdown and …
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