Utah schools upgrading safety measures to keep students safe

HOLLADAY, Utah (ABC4) – Faculties within the Granite Faculty District have been upgrading for varsity security for years.

On Wednesday, ABC4 toured one elementary college which featured key playing cards, new cameras, and an additional key card essential to entry the workplace.

“Simply creating boundaries. Making it very tough to entry the constructing in and of itself,” mentioned Benjamin Horsley with Granite Faculty District.

“The first concern we see on a day after day foundation is uncontrolled mother and father. And threats coming in from most people,” added Horsley.

The district has additionally added these measures, in line with data despatched out to oldsters:

–Safe foyers/entry entry factors to elementary faculties and several other junior excessive faculties. We nonetheless have a handful of those tasks remaining districtwide and we anticipate they are going to be accomplished by subsequent Spring.

-Single entry entry (the place potential) with key card entry for workers together with on all exterior buildings/relocatable doorways. 

-Faculty check-in protocols for all guests with an instantaneous background examine system.

-ID badge/customer badge necessities so everybody is definitely identifiable on our campuses. 

-Over 5000+ safety cameras districtwide monitored by a 24/7 dispatch heart.

-Along with native police college useful resource officers (SROs), we’ve got 24 Granite District Police Division SROs to assist present safety and protection to the complete district. 

-Implementing a weapons sniffing canine (at present being educated) from www.skooldogs.com to assist establish threats in our buildings.