This summer, the Campus Safety Conference is coming to National Harbor, MD, on July 25-26 and Long Beach, CA, on Aug. 9-10. This two-day conference brings safety and security decision-makers together – from police chiefs and security directors to integrators and school public safety professionals – to learn how to prepare for, plan, and prevent emergency situations from arising on K-12 and college campuses across the country.
PASS (the Partner Alliance for Safer Schools), a partnership between NSCA and SIA (the Security Industry Association), will be leading a session at Campus Safety Conference West in August, featuring Guy Grace (Littleton Public Schools’ director of security and emergency planning) and Scott Lord (director of innovation and national accounts at All Systems).
In the aftermath of a Littleton school shooting in 2013, Grace immediately began to examine ways to improve the school district’s security systems – a daunting task for any educational organization. In Summer 2014, Grace was introduced to PASS material and expertise. Through the organization’s guidance, he obtained ideas and new direction on how to improve his district’s security systems.
This presentation offers examples of how other school districts can follow Grace’s lead and use materials and guidelines from PASS to address security objectives.
Other Campus Safety Conference sessions of note include:
Beyond Compliance: More than an Emergency Operations Plan
Learn how the EOP (emergency operations plan) is just one part of an emergency management plan and how to put the parts together to move beyond compliance.
New Perspectives on Active Shooter Training
Active shooter response has evolved to the current immediate entry of a one- or two-officer contact team. This session discussed several training issues, including communications plans, preparing for non-shooting active incidents, command staff responsibilities, rescue task force operations, and media response.
Designing Safe Schools with CPTED: Crime Prevention Through Environmental Design
This session addresses many considerations for designing K-12 schools with features that enhance and embrace safety and security data. Review the principles and strategies of CPTED for schools, and when the most effective and efficient introduction of these principles can be introduced into the design and construction process. Examples will be shown of successful and not-so-successful applications of security features and technologies.
Visit www.campussafetyconference.com to learn more about the Campus Safety Conference. We hope to see you there!