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CAMPUS SECURITY & LIFE SAFETY
Sterling High School Superintendent, Mark Napoleon
right color conditions. The Sterling configu- ration consists of green (Safe/secure); pink (Morning Check-in); yellow (Danger outside building); blue (Medical emergency); orange (Disturbance); and red (Imminent Danger).
Per procedures established by school Superintendent Mark Napoleon, teachers staff and the local police department have all been given access to the system. Teachers are required to sign in to CLASS at the beginning of the school day and label their room “green”, indicating it is safe. As teachers move from one classroom to another, they again sign in and follow the same procedure, enabling the front office to know the location of faculty and the situation at all times.
“Implementation of CLASS has been a huge success because everyone, law enforcement included, is on board and committed,” said Mark Napoleon, superintendent. “It’s also a very easy system to use. It required almost no learning curve, which also contributed to acceptance.”
Sterling High School has used the system twice since going operational. The first time was an incident in the classroom when a stu- dent would not leave as directed. Without con- frontation or making a call to the front office, the teacher simply activated the disturbance symbol on the computer and assistance was able to come immediately. The second incident involved a situation outside the building that warranted the “lockout” crisis to be activated.
In both incidents, the CLASS system helped mitigate potentially dangerous situations.
As the school moves forward with their security initiatives, they intend to tie new operations into CLASS. For instance, it is cur- rently integrated with an access control sys- tem to remotely lock exterior doors. In the future they will have a full lockdown of all doors, including the interior. It is interfaced to their paging system via the Sielox AC-1700 access control system outputs to trigger pre- programmed announcements and messages. Planned integration with existing hallway
motion sensors will “track” intruders on the floorplan maps.
“Compared to other systems, the price and capabilities of CLASS gave us more value,” adds Superintendent Napoleon. “It was a great way to go in mak-
ing the school safer and more secure.”
Sydny Shepard is the con- tent editor for Campus Security & Life Safety magazine.
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