Wireless Access Control Teaches a New Security Curriculum
April 20, 2019, marked 20 years since the Columbine High School massacre. It was a paradigm-shattering moment that forever changed the way schools around the United States viewed their own status as vulnerable, potential victims. Earlier this year, Arkansas’ Blytheville Public School District, faced with the same concerns of intruder violence as other educational systems around the nation, took a giant step toward self-protection with the installation of a cloud-based wireless access control system.
Kris Williams, director of technology and Title I, said the district had received many requests from parents and the larger community to increase security. “The best way to do that, we felt, was to secure access to our buildings.”