On Oct. 24, 2017, after a year-long effort led by NSCA, the Security Industry Association (SIA), the Consumer Technology Association (CTA), and many other trade associations that serve the electronic systems industry, Congress presented to President Donald Trump a bill to enact the Power and Security Systems (PASS) Act (S. 190). This bill provides an Read the full article…
Colorado is home to Littleton Public Schools, a district with approximately 15,000 students spread across 13 elementary schools, four middle schools, three high schools, and several alternative programs, preschools, and charter schools. In 2013, a shooting occurred at one of its high schools. To better prepare for potential threats, and after receiving funding, Littleton Public Read the full article…
It’s always nice to be recognized – and Littleton Public Schools in Colorado, which is an endorser of the Partner Alliance for Safer Schools (PASS) K-12 program, was recently honored by Security Technology Executive and Security Dealer & Integrator magazines, SecurityInfoWatch.com, and Secured Cities for having one of the five most innovative integrated deployments in the security industry Read the full article…
Last Friday, the U.S. Department of Education announced that it is seeking to impose on Penn State University a record fine of nearly $2.4 million for Clery Act violations in the highly publicized Sandusky case. Passed by Congress in 1990, the Clery Act requires colleges and universities participating in federal financial aid programs to track Read the full article…
Sometimes it’s hard to see the impacts of our efforts, whether we’re talking about reaching a goal or finishing a big work project. To get a better handle on how the PASS (Partner Alliance for Safer Schools) K-12 program is impacting the systems integration industry, I took a step back to analyze what we’ve doing Read the full article…
CEDAR RAPIDS, IA, July 23, 2015 — The Partner Alliance for Safer Schools (PASS) – an initiative developed by the National Systems Contractors Association (NSCA) and the Security Industry Association (SIA) – is excited to announce that it has added three new members to its steering committee. Michele Gay, founder of Safe and Sound: A Read the full article…
School safety needs to improve. Not too many people would disagree with that. We can’t lock down schools like a correctional institution, but we can do better. Several years, NSCA developed a program called MNEC (mass notification and emergency communications). This effort has allowed our members to become very influential in helping schools with their Read the full article…
