The School District of Clio, Michigan has begun a project to install $40,000.oo worth of surveillance equipment in the districts schools as part of an initiative to make the schools and their students more safe, says an article published in the Clio Messenger.
Clio has received a $20k grant from the Save Our Schools program, and the City of Clio has contributed the other $20k from its own coffers.
In addition to surveillance gear, the district is also enhancing its communication capabilities internally with 2-way radios, and other measures to help secure the institutions. They hope that these measures will bring added security to the schools on and off-session. The software being used by the schools to drive their video surveillance is being given to officers of the schools administration, to allow them to keep an eye on the school from their offices and from home as well. The local police department is also looking at the possibility of installing the software on computers in their officers squad cars, to allow police to help monitor and asses critical situations before taking action, should that become necessary.
For more information, please check out the original article:
http://www.mlive.com/clio/index.ssf/2009/07/clio_ditching_class_might.html
Tags: kids, police, safety, school, surveillance
