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when it comes to the cameras in a specific situation.”
THE END GOAL
Glacer came to ISC West with a very specific goal in mind.
“My goal is to collect everything that I can from [ISC West], all the products, all the solutions and services, everything that everybody has, and take it back to school with me.” Glacer said. “There are a few dif- ferent people that my dad and I would like to talk to first, but really I
just want change at this point.”
The mission is to get companies to stop selling solutions for a single
problem and to start thinking of a total solution for campuses.
“I’m hoping, depending on who we can get into contact with, to bring companies together, basically,” Glacer said. “Having all these companies single-handedly throw their products at a school is great, but they aren’t being implemented, and they aren’t going to be imple- mented until campuses understand how these products can work to
give them a holistic approach to security.”
Glacer described a potential initiative where companies design cam-
pus security packages that can be assigned to schools based on a slid- ing scale of risk.
“What I would like to see happen is companies come together and create different, scalable packages that can be tailored to schools,” Gla- cer said. “Then you can have a risk assessment consultant create a scale of risk that can be associated with the packages of solutions. These consultants can then match schools with a campus security package based on their level of risk.”
“I think that would be so helpful to schools—packages that are
already made and ready to implement based on the current threats aimed at that school.”
MOVING FORWARD
While security is the main topic of conversation around his school and home at the current moment, Glacer said he isn’t really interested in a career in security.
“I don’t know that I would want to work in the security industry,” Glacer said. “But I will always want to help out, especially when it comes to campus security.”
Moving forward, Glacer is looking at colleges in Florida, but even that brings up its own set of questions and worries.
“Securing a college campus is like securing a small city,” Glacer said. “I will definitely be aware of what security solutions a campus has when looking at colleges.”
Glacer hopes to attend the University of Florida or University of California, Berkeley in the Fall of 2019.
For now, Glacer holds onto hope that something good will come out of his visit to ISC West. With ongoing threats made to Marjory Stone- man Douglas High School weekly, the student body is still on edge. I asked Glacer if the threats worried him still, or if, at
this point, they felt normal.
“I don’t know how to feel,” he said. “Anything can happen.”
Sydny Shepard is the Executive Editor of Campus Security & Life Safety.
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