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COVER STORY: District Offers Security Lessons
By Laura Spadanuta

How one school district is improving the grade of its security, starting with its largest high school.

James Logan High School, located in the San Francisco Bay Area, spans a large city block and has about 4,000 students attending its classes. Earlier in the year, some of those students made news—two for organizing a fundraiser for disaster relief in China and one for being among the winners of a national scholarship award program. That’s the way schools hope their students make headlines.

Unfortunately, another Logan student, 14-year-old Vernon Eddins, also made the news late last year—in that case, it was because he had become the latest victim of gang violence, which has been growing in Union City, where Logan is located.

Although the fatal shooting of Eddins did not occur at Logan, it gave impetus to discussions already underway at the district level for improving security at the school, which is the main high school in the New Haven Unified School District.

And while the initial plan—pushed by parents and some staff members—was a modest proposal to put up some parking lot surveillance cameras, the district decided instead to take a much more comprehensive approach. The way the district carried out the project offers lessons for schools nationwide. ...

Read Security Management Magazine, August 2008 Online

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