School shootings Information

Mass Shootings Are Not Legally A "Foresseable Event"

In the United States, mass shootings are not typically 'foreseeable' events from a legal perspective, a standard that shields landowners from...

By Stephanie Cohen and Conor Healy - 11 days ago

Centegix Sales Surge - Wearable Panic Button Provider Profile

Most people, even within physical security, will not know who Centegix is, but the company's sales are surging as a partial solution to school...

By Nikita Ermolaev - 19 days ago

Replace Widely Used Classroom Locks, Says DOJ

The risks posed by classroom locks are known by security professionals, and now the DOJ has recommended replacing them. In this report, we...

By Stephanie Cohen - about 1 month ago

Students Protest Long Evolv Lines After Stabbing

While Evolv sold schools on "long lines" being eliminated, one Evolv school customer is facing controversy amidst protests over long...

By Conor Healy - about 1 month ago

Reconsider Classroom Lockdown Procedures Says DOJ

Classroom lockdowns have become a very popular yet controversial response to school shootings. Now, the DOJ is recommending schools reconsider...

By Jermaine Wilson - 3 months ago

Free Visible Weapon Detection, Iterate.ai Examined

With school shootings rising, there are many new entrants in the weapons detection market. Iterate.ai recently made USA Today for its free visible...

By Jermaine Wilson - 4 months ago

School Shooting Investigation Names Admins, Including Now Evolv Marketing Director, For "Failure And Responsibility By Omission"

While a school shooting investigation named 5 Oxford, MI school officials, including a now Evolv marketing director, as contributing to "failure"...

By IPVM Team - 4 months ago

Philadelphia's Student-Operated School Safety Drone Program Examined

While Axon's taser-drone idea for dealing with school shootings gained wide attention and criticism, Philadelphia schools are also using drones to...

By Nikita Ermolaev - 4 months ago

Metrasens Starts Targeting School Weapons Detection

While UK's Metrasens, founded by a group of PhDs, resisted selling into the booming school weapons detection market, they have now reversed,...

By Nikita Ermolaev - 5 months ago

ACLU Falsely Contrasts School Shooting Killing Odds To Winning The Lottery

ACLU wrote a 60+ page report criticizing the EdTEch Surveillance industry, and in the report, it compared the odds of a student getting shot and...

By Nikita Ermolaev - 5 months ago

Students Assaulted With Box Cutter At School Using CEIA

Evolv was involved with multiple stabbings in the past year, and now CEIA has joined its main competitor, as two students were assaulted in one of...

By Nikita Ermolaev - 5 months ago

"Tragedy Was Avoidable" Says Investigator For Oxford Michigan Shooting

Four students were murdered in a 2021 school shooting, but a new investigative report found that "this tragedy was avoidable" if "proper threat...

By Nikita Ermolaev - 6 months ago

ACLU Criticizes School Surveillance Dangers And Marketing Deception

The ACLU bluntly declared "The Danger in Buying What the EdTech Surveillance Industry is Selling," but what deceptive practices should schools be...

By Nikita Ermolaev - 6 months ago

ZeroEyes' False Alert Causing A School Lockdown Examined

While ZeroEyes has a 24/7 operation center reviewing alerts before passing them to its customers, a Texas school district had a lockdown caused by...

By Nikita Ermolaev - 6 months ago

$1 Billion In Grants For Improving School Security Examined

With mass shootings and school violence a growing concern in the US, the US federal government passed a bill introducing billions in funding to...

By Conor Healy - 6 months ago

Weapons Detection Systems Don’t Reduce Soaring School Insurance Costs

With school shootings causing insurance rates to soar, schools increasingly purchase weapons screening systems hoping to reduce the risk of...

By Christie Smythe - 8 months ago

School Shooting Insurance Examined

Mass shootings and other deadly events on school property can trigger lawsuits and multi-million-dollar settlements and are driving significant...

By Christie Smythe - 8 months ago

School Shootings Shifting Outdoors, Now 70%+

In the past decade, school shootings have drastically shifted to overwhelmingly occurring outdoors, IPVM has verified from examining the K-12...

By Brandon Niskala - 10 months ago

Weapon Detectors Won't Stop Planned Attacks, Warns K-12 School Shooting Database Founder

While schools are spending millions of dollars on weapons detectors, a foremost school shooting expert told IPVM that they won’t stop planned...

By Donald Maye - 10 months ago

K-12 School Shooting Database Examined

The K-12 School Shooting Database has documented ~2,400 school shootings since 1966, providing free data to help shape the planning and procedures...

By IPVM - 10 months ago

PASS Chairman Interview and School Guidelines Examined

As schools in the US face growing shooting incidents and student/staff safety issues, the Partner Alliance for Safer Schools (PASS) is providing...

By John Honovich and Sean Patton - 11 months ago

Evolv School Customer Has 32% False Alarm Rate Without Chromebooks

An Evolv school customer has reported a 32% false alarm rate even without counting Chromebooks and laptops though the customer is happy. In...

By Nikita Ermolaev - over 1 year ago

Florida School District Pays 11x More For Evolv Than CEIA

Duval County Florida spent $7 million on Evolv, selecting the company over rival CEIA's OpenGate weapon detection system, despite the latter being...

By Nikita Ermolaev - over 1 year ago

Evolv Maryland School Customer Satisfied Despite 250:1 False Alarm Rate

An Evolv school district customer told IPVM that they are satisfied with the system and that "without this technology [the school official] 100%...

By Nikita Ermolaev - over 1 year ago

Motorola and Schneider Sued by Parents of Uvalde Victims

Parents of three Robb Elementary School shooting victims are suing Motorola, Schneider Electric, the school district, the gun manufacturer, and...

By IPVM Team - over 1 year ago

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