If that title offends you, it should. It is a horror that a campus shooting rampage killed 10+ students and injured 10+ at Umpqua Community College in Roseburg, Oregon today. Sadly, in America, it is just another Thursday. Mass shootings are becoming commonplace. So are campus shootings. People shrug saying that there was nothing that …
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Urgent Safety Issues School Business Officials Need to Know Now
At this week’s New Mexico Association of School Business Officials (ASBO) Conference, school business officials will learn how to assess their schools for high lethality events through planning and prevention followed by target hardening as a physical means of protection utilizing CPTED Principles. “We will show school officials how to incorporate safety by identifying and …
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School Hostage Crisis Tips
School violence started before Labor Day. Already in August we’ve seen teachers and students in a West Virginia school taken hostage by a 14-year-old with a handgun. At Philip Barbour High School in Philippi, West Virginia, the standoff stretched through several tense hours, until the attacker finally allowed his hostages to be released. He later …
Sacramento City College Shooting: 45-Minute Delayed Text Could Have Been Fatal
A 45-minute delay sending a lock down text after an on-campus shooting in Sacramento this week could have been fatal. Three Sacramento City College students were victims of on-campus gun violence. One student died and two others were injured, one seriously with multiple gunshot wounds. The students were leaving an afternoon class when, at 3:56 …
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Virginia Shooting: What turns workers into a “powder keg” ready to explode violently?
“This week’s horrific, on-air, deadly shooting of a Virginia TV reporter and her cameraman is another reminder that workplace violence doesn’t have to occur at the work site,” says Richard H. Price, Soteria Group Principal and Senior Analyst, CPTED CPD with Soteria Group, Safety by Design. “Businesses need to recognize that minimizing workplace violence takes …
Leader’s Checklist To Prevent Arson
An arsonist scrutinizes your building differently than most people. They are predators who can spot weaknesses in your security, driven by the thrill of fire, to cover up another crime or blind rage. If you have a hard time imagining your workplace as the target of some crazed arsonist, that’s understandable and common. But the …
Where Movie Theater Security Is Heading in the Next Five Years
With the recent spate of theater shootings, including one just this week, there is an urgent need for increased movie theater security strategies, nationwide. The Movie Theater Shooting Map above from Best.QuantaMovie doesn’t even include all the shootings since May 2015. Unfortunately, there should be (at least) four more red dots on that map. At Soteria Safety by …
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Soteria Group Fights School Violence At The 10th Annual National School Safety Conference July 27 – 31, 2015 The “M” Resort, Las Vegas Nevada
For more information: 505-263-7059 info@soteriasafetybydesign.com Facebook: Soteria-Group Twitter: SoteriaGroupNM FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Soteria Group Fights School Violence At The 10th Annual National School Safety Conference July 27 – 31, 2015 The “M” Resort, Las Vegas Nevada Albuquerque, NM, July 27, 2015— Soteria Group takes on campus violence and leads the fight for safety this week …
How Effective is Your Emergency Response Plan: What You Don’t Know Could Be Deadly
Soteria Safety By Design is meeting with the school safety industry’s leaders at the School Safety Advocacy Council’s National School Safety Conference this week in Las Vegas. If you do nothing else at this conference, make a beeline to booth 147 to discover just how vulnerable your school is. At booth 147, we’re giving away …
VIDEO: Can Soteria Destroy New Glass That Could Increase School Safety?
From KOB TV: New glass could increase school safety Local security firm “Soteria Group: Safety by Design” says one way they’re working to keep armed intruders out of schools, churches and workplaces is by using safer building materials.Tuesday, they tried out a new kind of glass for windows and doors that’s meant to take much …
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