Government leads transition to smart card technology
Randy Southerland
Someday everyone will carry a card containing a tiny microprocessor chip, and use it to pay the subway toll, unlock the office door, log onto the corporate...
A database of offenders
ACCESS CONTROL & SECURITY SYSTEMS INTEGRATION STAFF
The Pennsylvania Board of Probation and Parole (PBPP) has created a system that lets agents maintain a complete photographic history and database of every...
Richmond Airport uses buried cable for enhanced security
Randy Southerland
Located seven miles east of Virginia's state capitol, Richmond International Airport is one of the nation's principal air cargo facilities. The airport...
Protection at $5.75 an hour
Billie Vincent
Effective screening of airline passengers ensures that dangerous articles are not introduced into controlled areas. The Federal Aviation Administration...
Lady Of The Harbor
Don Garbera
"Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free." These words, inscribed on a tablet mounted in the pedestal of the Statue...
Super security: Preparing for the big game takes months of effort.
Carey Adams
On Jan. 30, the eyes of millions of football fans were focused on the Georgia Dome in Atlanta. In the first major event of the Millennium, the Tennessee...
Protecting against nuclear threats
ACCESS CONTROL & SECURITY SYSTEMS INTEGRATION STAFF
The threat of nuclear terrorism is often dismissed as too horrific to even consider. There are, however, more than a few terrorist experts who believe...
Dispatch to nowhere
Randy Southerland
It is a long Midwestern winter night as Officer Steve McNeal drives his squad car down deserted Main Street. The lawman is in a hurry because his radio...
What works at the waterworks
Randy Southerland
Covering more than 550 square miles southeast of metropolitan Los Angeles, the Eastern Municipal Water District serves more than 400,000 residents of...
New York Corrections secures non-inmate areas
Carey Adams
The New York State Correctional Department prides itself on being ahead of the curve when it comes to providing the ultimate in correctional security....
Remote video as traffic cop
ACCESS CONTROL & SECURITY SYSTEMS INTEGRATION STAFF
Electronic traffic management and information programs have previously relied on a system of sensors to estimate traffic parameters. The prevalent technology...
Virginia Lottery places bets on security, ID badging
Carol Carey
Security has been a priority at the Virginia State Lottery building since the lottery's inception in 1988. At that time, Security Director Dennis P. Shaw...
Mt. Rushmore
Emily Harwood
Security professionals are continuously confronted with unusual applications but protection of the country's national monuments is among the most challenging...
Security tokens help police efforts against gangs
Carey Adams
Gangs have plagued the streets of America for years. The damage caused by gangs can be measured in the lives they have destroyed either through gang membership...
Plans needed for communications infrastructure
ACCESS CONTROL & SECURITY SYSTEMS INTEGRATION STAFF
Recently, a major telephone failure on New York's Long Island was caused by the accidental severing of an important fiber-optic feeder cable by a construction...
Giving voice to security
Carey Adams
Prior to 1993, the Baltimore Department of Public Works had little security inside or outside its administrative and equipment buildings. Computers and...
Access control protects nerve center of Camp Pendleton's energy management
Randy Southerland
A swarm of helicopter gun ships roars overhead on a training sortie. On the rough terrain below Marines clad in full battle gear, their faces blackened,...
The sanctity of the mail
MICHAEL FICKES
Mail is something most of us take for granted. But once an envelope goes into the mailbox, it becomes federal property, and it is the responsibility of...
Putting crime on the Map
Predicting the likelihood of crime in specific neighborhoods helps businesses choose where to locate, and guides security directors in allocating resources...
Government Security
Access Control & Security Systems Integration Staff
System 1000 Level II Video Imaging Software, double as employee identification cards. The cards also incorporate holograms of the New York City seal to...
Traffic studies, security style
JOHN M. FLANAGAN, CPP
You see them at highway intersections, sitting on canvas chairs with clipboards on their laps, watching cars pass by. They are conducting traffic studies...
Paving a highway for access control
Michael Fickes
Networked technology facilitates access control for 15,000 employees, vendors and contractors working for the North Carolina Department of Transportation.Jeannie...
Defending the prosecutors
CAROL CAREY
In a new glass and steel building, security equipment protects employees of the Kings County DA's office ... and their witnesses.Employees of the Kings...
Emergency preparedness - Seven-step guide to developing a plan
ANNA NORTHCUTT
Has your emergency preparedness plan been collecting dust? I used to be the security manager of a multi-facility site and the corporate security director...
Preserving order in the court
WILL POLLOCK
A multi-phased, integrated system brings high-tech, networked security to courthouse buildings in Collin County, Texas.Municipal buildings and facilities...
