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Security System Grows with Needs at Granite School District
Through a series of improvements to its access control system, the Granite School District continues to expand its ability to provide greater security for its students, teachers, and staff. Building on basic door hardware such as exit devices, the District now is incorporating greater use of electronic security.
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Boulder Valley School District Security System Blends Keys & Credentials
Like many school buildings that are veterans of the suburban expansion of the1950s and 1960s, Boulder Valley School District needed to consolidate its access control solutions to improve security. Now, electronic locks control access through exterior doors, while restricted patented keyways improve key control and prevent unauthorized key duplication on interior door locks.
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Old-School Locks Just Wouldn’t Do for Piedmont Schools
This California district standardized its door hardware and keys thanks to a local bond measure and state modernization funds.
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Greenwood Community Schools
Greenwood has always been proactive about security, but several tragic well-known events increased the emphasis on doing everything possible to protect students and staff.
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San Mateo High School District Keys in on Security
At the San Mateo Union High School District, a combination of relatively simple but effective access control solutions
protects students, teachers and staff with minimal system management requirements.
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Security is in the Cards for Cobb County School District
From a test that began as a maintenance initiative a few years ago, Cobb County School District has upgraded access at its elementary schools to a card access control system that helps ensure security for students and staff. At the same time, it simplifies access management and reduces costs. The Cobb County School District, located in the northwest
suburbs of Atlanta, is the second largest school system in Georgia.
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Boone County Schools Incorporate Electronic Security
Boone County, Kentucky School District has implemented a succession of access control improvements that move progressively higher up the pyramid of security solutions. Beginning with the basics of improved key control, the district is now moving toward greater use of electronic security.
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California School District Uses Networked Access Security to protect Students, Staff and Property
Networked Access Control Brings Everything Together
Because security is of paramount importance to everyone involved, a critical part of the plan includes a complete overhaul of all building access control by replacing mechanical keys with a networked electronic system. In making access control uniform across the entire district, AUSD adopted the Schlage Security Management System (SMS), a Windows®-based software program offered by Ingersoll Rand Security Technologies.
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Lynwood Schools Move to Network Security
The community of Lynwood, California, located in Los Angeles County, is home to more than 70,000 citizens and a school district serving almost 20,000 students in grades K-12. By combining state allocations and a recent local bond issue, the school district now has the desperately needed funds to meet the demands of its young and growing population. Among the planned upgrades are: adding four new schools in the next year, for a total of 19; expanding six existing sites; and replacing portable buildings with permanent structures at several locations.
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Olathe, Kansas Schools Standardize on Electronic Access Control
Installing a Schlage Security Management System has enabled Kansas’ Olathe Unified School District 233 to eliminate the use of mechanical keys and simplify access control management at all the buildings in its system. Since 2004, the district’s 50 schools and support buildings, which serve almost 25,000 students, all have been converted to keyless entry.