Cooper announces task force on campus security
Published: Wed, Apr. 18, 2007 03:12PM
Modified Wed, Apr. 18, 2007 03:28PM
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closeRALEIGH -- N.C. Attorney General Roy Cooper today announced the creation of a task force to examine safety issues on North Carolina campuses in the wake of Monday’s slayings at Virginia Tech.
The task force will include officials from his office, the State Bureau of Investigation, the University of North Carolina system, the state community college system and the association of N.C. Independent Colleges.
They effort will focus on trying to set best practices and to update campus security plans. Among the specifics the task force will consider are when to declare campus lock downs, how best to communicate with students and faculty and ways to identify a potential shooter before an incident occurs.
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UNC President Erskine Bowles said that university leaders met about two weeks ago to discuss campus safety because of incidents at several UNC campuses and had already begun planning such safety improvements as ensuring card access locks for all dorms, alarms to prevent students from propping open secured doors open and video cameras.
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