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IAPSC
 Lee Struble is the President of WSM Trainers and Consultants, which he founded in 1996. He retired from a 30-year career in higher education public safety (Nazareth College, Monroe Community College, Rochester Institute of Technology, and St. John Fisher College). He also works as a senior trainer for the National Crime Prevention Council (NCPC) and provides security assessment and consulting services to colleges and universities throughout the United States. Lee resides in Spencerport, New York.
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IAPSC
Robert Lomb is the Director of Advanced Technology Solutions at PositivEnergy in Chicago, IL. Mr. Lomb has extensive experience in a wide scope of client driven solutions from design, procurement, project management and construction administration to operational review and analysis within small and large-scale projects. His clients range from executive residences, multi-unit housing, commercial, correctional, military and government to utility, retail, mission critical, K-12 and university campuses. He has provided solutions for projects encompassing single site and shared use facilities, corporate campuses and global enterprise clients.
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IAPSC
At the Annual Members' Business Meeting on April 19th, the IAPSC Membership voted to amend the Bylaws section detailing the qualifications and participation opportunities for the Retired Membership category. The current Bylaws may be found here.
IAPSC
The Interest Groups facilitate member relationship-building across areas of specialty and interest. They provide new opportunities for IAPSC members to survey the needs of the membership in their specialized areas and discuss current topics, best practices and guidelines, challenges members are experiencing, and trends in the industry. These groups may also be a forum for collaborating on working group projects, seminars, and networking activities. It's easy to participate in the monthly teleconference from your computer or your phone, via GoToMeeting.
We hope to connect with you at an upcoming Interest Group session:
May 20 @ 9 a.m. PDT — Forensics and Security Management
June 17 @ 9 a.m. PDT — Security Design and Engineering
July 15 @ 9 a.m. PDT — Cybersecurity
Sign up now on-line here or by contacting iapsc@iapsc.org.
IAPSC
Join us for this popular, one-day intensive program on Sunday, September 11, 2016 from 8 a.m.-5 p.m. at the Orange County Convention Center in Orlando, Florida.
The "SSC" program is presented by leading technical and management security consultants will show you how to develop, market and deliver security consultant services and how to avoid the costly mistakes that can sabotage the success of your clients’ or your own security program. The program is filled with practical information on just how to offer and deliver security consulting assignments starting with establishing your practice, finding clients, networking with other consultants, and executing security management and technical aspects of consulting from the initial consulting assignment through security assessments, designs and specifications, procurement, and implementation. A comprehensive workbook of sample proposals and reports will be provided each attendee.
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The Fresno Bee
In the wake of several fatal shootings on a stretch of Highway 4, the Pittsburg City Council is considering installing security cameras on the freeway.
KNTV-TV reports that the council will vote on whether to spend more than $100,000 on equipment to install the cameras on the highway.
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USA Today
Anticipating long lines at airport checkpoints this summer, Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson said that Transportation Security Administration officials would take aggressive steps to stretch its workforce by hiring more security screeners and allowing more officers to work overtime.
Still, Johnson warned, travelers will see long wait times as the agency at time of high security coincides with the busy summer travel season. Travelers and airline officials have complains of waits as long as two hours in some airports.
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Property Casualty
Kathleen M. Boncyzk writes: "As a former human resources director, my responsibilities included serving as a member of the company's safety committee. Back then when the topic of workplace violence came up, our greatest concern focused on issues like the occasional shoving match and heated arguments between co-workers. We never imagined that shootings would be an issue.
However, workplace violence cannot be taken lightly. Outdated notions of 'it can't happen here,' must be disregarded. Employee safety should be a top priority for every organization. The following three tips can help minimize some of the risk from workplace violence."
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Fierce Healthcare
Workplace violence is rampant in healthcare but several factors make the problem difficult to assess and solve, according to a new article in the New England Journal of Medicine.
"Healthcare workplace violence is an underreported, ubiquitous and persistent problem that has been tolerated and largely ignored," writes James Phillips, M.D., of Harvard Medical School and the Department of Emergency Medicine, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston.
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SecurityInfoWatch
Between 2001 and 2013, the overall number of crimes reported by postsecondary institutions decreased by 34 percent, from 41,600 to 27,600, according to a report recently published by the National Center for Education Statistics. Despite this downward trend, it seems that student fears about crime, and mass shootings in particular, have never been higher. This has led many states in recent years to pass legislation allowing students and faculty members with concealed carry permits to bring their weapons onto campus, usually in the face of fierce opposition from the schools themselves.
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By Cait Harrison
 Most of us have experienced the frustration of trying to remember a password — or worse, finding out our personal information has been compromised. Now, a new payment initiative by MasterCard is working to address both of those problems with one solution: the selfie. Don't laugh it off just yet. In light of increasing online retail fraud and a self-obsessed culture where taking selfies has become the new norm, it might just make sense.
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Tech Crunch
Internet accessibility for all people, of all ages and in all places has unleashed unprecedented resources and opportunities. It also unlocked our digital and physical security. The sacrifice of safety is an unintended consequence of the Internet age. Can the tools that caused this vulnerability be reappropriated to make us safer?
There's a rise in startups who think so. They are building platforms to strengthen our personal safety where we need it most — whether on the street, at school or online.
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Tech Times
About half of U.S. households, with an active Internet user, have been putting off posting opinions, sharing on social media, banking and buying goods online, according to a new survey from the National Telecommunications and Information Administration. That's the effect, and the cause is cybersecurity.
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