Campus Safety

Your Questions About Emergency Communications – Answered

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When it comes to the safety of students, nearly everyone can agree that taking extra precautions is worth the effort. However, there’s always two sides to every solution. For example, fencing off campuses and controlling one point of entry limits access by unauthorized persons, but it can cause traffic and delays. Emergency communications equipment often brings up similar questions… which… [Read More...]

How Safe Are Our Schools?

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The Data Isn’t Clear, But One Answer Is – CASE In November of 2021, Education Week published an article discussing the apparent rise in school violence – not only amongst students, but also altercations involving teachers and staff. While there hasn’t been any hard data that proves an increase in the number of reported cases, the conversation has clearly changed… [Read More...]

University of Texas at Austin Adding Blue Light Towers and E-Phones to West Campus

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As university campuses and surrounding communities expand, public safety needs change. Even a school with ample emergency communications in its central campus locations can find students experiencing worry or fear at the edges of campus or in more remote areas like bus stops or athletic fields. For the University of Texas at Austin, students had long been petitioning campus officials… [Read More...]

When “Networked” Doesn’t Work

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How CASE Equipment Prevents System-Wide Failures There’s a lot of talk these days about making sure everything is “connected” or “running in parallel” or “synced,” but it’s not truly the best way to set up a reliable emergency communications system. Ideally, each unit should function independently – ensuring the full system has as many functioning units as possible at any… [Read More...]

Always Working Overtime for Employee Safety

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Regardless of industry, size of business, or where it is located, people are the most important assets any company can have. Making sure they stay safe on the job at all times is one way smart employers improve employee retention and satisfaction. For one of our clients in particular, United Rentals, management wanted to upgrade security and safety in its… [Read More...]

Helping School Districts Connect to Better Public Safety

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CASE Provides Communication and Peace of Mind to School Systems Nationwide Today’s school campuses are far more than just classrooms. Often, they are valuable community destinations for adult learning, after school programming, school-sponsored and community sports, playgrounds and parks, and neighborhood events. Having reliable emergency communications in these important locations is vital to the safety of all who live near,… [Read More...]

Wireless Mass Notification System

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One of the most innovative upgrades available on select CASE Emergency Systems products is Mass Notification – which gives your designated operators the ability to broadcast messages using CASE equipment as a public address system. But that’s only the beginning of what Mass Notification from CASE makes possible…. Our systems can be 100% wireless – allowing broadcasts even in remote… [Read More...]

What’s the Cost of Safer Schools? In Houston, Much Less Than You’d Expect

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We’ve all been there when the headlines come on the news about another school safety breach. It doesn’t matter if it’s in our own city, one nearby, or one on the other side of the country, we say to ourselves, “There’s got to be a better way.” And that’s where the conversation usually ends because school systems just don’t have… [Read More...]

Smart Ways to Fund School Safety? Put CASE on the Case!

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Houston’s Cypress-Fairbanks Independent School District took an innovative approach towards solving their school safety needs – they used community education bonds to fund the installation of 50 CASE Blue Light Towers. No waiting for a state congressional session to ask for funds… no tedious fundraising campaign to oversee… just a smart use of dollars that the community generated to… [Read More...]

CASE Makes New York Parks Safer for Everyone

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Recently, CASE Blue Light Towers became the centerpieces of a new public safety initiative designed to bring quicker response time and greater peace of mind to the residents of the Bronx in New York City. The area’s parks had recently suffered some very public deaths when teenagers drowned in a park and emergency teams could not locate them in time,… [Read More...]