Security Integrators Help School District Respond & Move Forward After Tragedies
Littleton Public Schools (LPS), in Colorado, is located a half-mile away from Columbine High School. So in 1999 when that now infamous massacre took place, LPS, along with many others in the state and nationwide took stock of its security technology and processes and began an upgrade that would provide them with state-of-the-art (at the time) technology, including access control, video surveillance, alarms, mass notification and more.
By late 2012, Guy Grace, director of security and emergency planning at LPS had come to an important conclusion: “I was so frustrated with our DVRs that we’d been installing since the last bond issue approval. At first, they were meeting our needs; they could handle the PTZ cameras and motion detection, but over time the supplier started eliminating basic functions we needed. It was making our jobs harder than they needed to be.”