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Tempe board hears safety update; staff proposes $3.5 million camera upgrade and visitor-management pilots
Summary
District safety staff proposed a districtwide camera and visitor-management upgrade — with pilot sites, vendor checks of offender databases and an estimated cost of about $3.5 million — and discussed lobby security, reunification features and possible funding from recently passed bond dollars.
Mister Steven Carbajal presented a school-safety update to the Tempe School District Governing Board focused on emergency preparedness, camera expansion and visitor-management systems. Carbajal framed the work as preserving a culture of kindness while strengthening security and said the district is exploring a cloud-based 4K camera platform to improve video quality, retrieval speed and scalability.
Carbajal described potential benefits: faster evidence retrieval, cloud storage, scalable architecture and user-friendly interfaces for staff. He said the district is considering pilots at selected…
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