Most school security is built to react—lock the doors, sound the alarm, initiate lockdown. But once those measures are activated, the crisis is already unfolding, and the impact on students, teachers, parents, and staff is already in motion. A third-grade teacher once asked Adam Coughran, “I appreciate the training, but I can’t tell my students
In the latest episode of Innovation Obsessed, Matt Plantier of Oosto sits down with Wes Drake, former special operations expert and current COO of OmniResponse, to discuss the vital role of technology in modern security practices. With a background in the Department of Defense and over two decades of military experience, Wes brings a wealth
Despite intensified efforts to protect our students from school shootings, the numbers continue to climb. In fact, the number of shootings with casualties at K-12 schools has increased since the 2012-13 school year, when there were 22 shootings, and reached 93 shootings in 2020-21, according to the National Center for Education Statistics. After each shooting,
We must leverage existing technologies like social media monitoring, gunshot and weapons detection, and real-time watchlist alerting. We owe it to our children. The news of the Uvalde elementary school shooting this week absolutely gutted me. My heart and thoughts are with the families impacted by this violence. It’s a tragic and incomprehensible loss of
