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Salem-Keizer safety director outlines layered plan and new weapons-detection screening for all students and guests
Summary
Chris Baldridge, the district's director of safety and risk management services, described a layered approach that includes a 'digital fence,' door alarms, vinyl window wraps and adjustable weapons-detection systems that students and visitors will be required to pass through; alerts will prompt quick campus-safety checks.
Chris Baldridge, the director of safety and risk management services for Salem Keizer Public Schools, described a districtwide, layered approach to school safety that will require all students and guests to pass through newly installed screening systems.
"District's approach to safety is in layers," Baldridge said, using a "slice of Swiss cheese" metaphor to explain why the district is stacking multiple protections to cover gaps in any single measure. He identified a combination of physical and technological measures intended to control who enters and exits school buildings.
Baldridge described the district's "digital fence," a set of technologies to limit the number of doors students and visitors can use so staff can…
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