Adams182
Regular Member
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http://www.pba.org/post/task-force-recommends-campus-safety-improvements
Here are the 15 recommendations from the campus safety task force:
· Install a network of video cameras on and near college campuses which can be integrated into existing City of Atlanta Video Integration Command Center.
· Install and improve lighting on and around college campuses.
· Promote full utilization of student, parent, faculty and staff emergency notification and identification systems and other technology based safety tools, and the City of Atlanta’s SMART 911 system.
· Encourage and support periodic mandatory safety awareness training for students, faculty and staff.
· Establish Memoranda of Understanding between all campus police departments and Atlanta Police Department.
· Launch City of Atlanta’s Crime Stoppers program on each campus and promote the “See Something, Say Something” campaign.
· Incorporate campus officials in City of Atlanta’s bi-weekly multi-disciplinary code enforcement meeting.
· Conduct semi-annual campus community safety audits and environmental assessments in conjunction with City of Atlanta departments.
· Establish a standing city wide student safety council to maintain ongoing collaboration between college campus public safety officials and the City of Atlanta.
· Recommend that the Georgia Legislature enact a law providing campus police with the option to extend the 500 yard jurisdictional limitation in accordance with established memoranda of understanding.
· Establish a campus safety improvement fund in coordination with the Atlanta Police Foundation and Crime Stoppers.
· Enact legislation establishing campus crime free zones with increased criminal penalties.
· Further support and encourage the continuation of existing crime sweeps and other joint deployment efforts between campus police and the Atlanta Police Department.
· Establish greater coordination between MARTA police and campus police.
· Clarify campus police jurisdiction to issue city ordinances and encourage specific engagement between City and County prosecutors, the Courts and campus police departments
http://www.pba.org/post/task-force-recommends-campus-safety-improvements
Here are the 15 recommendations from the campus safety task force:
· Install a network of video cameras on and near college campuses which can be integrated into existing City of Atlanta Video Integration Command Center.
· Install and improve lighting on and around college campuses.
· Promote full utilization of student, parent, faculty and staff emergency notification and identification systems and other technology based safety tools, and the City of Atlanta’s SMART 911 system.
· Encourage and support periodic mandatory safety awareness training for students, faculty and staff.
· Establish Memoranda of Understanding between all campus police departments and Atlanta Police Department.
· Launch City of Atlanta’s Crime Stoppers program on each campus and promote the “See Something, Say Something” campaign.
· Incorporate campus officials in City of Atlanta’s bi-weekly multi-disciplinary code enforcement meeting.
· Conduct semi-annual campus community safety audits and environmental assessments in conjunction with City of Atlanta departments.
· Establish a standing city wide student safety council to maintain ongoing collaboration between college campus public safety officials and the City of Atlanta.
· Recommend that the Georgia Legislature enact a law providing campus police with the option to extend the 500 yard jurisdictional limitation in accordance with established memoranda of understanding.
· Establish a campus safety improvement fund in coordination with the Atlanta Police Foundation and Crime Stoppers.
· Enact legislation establishing campus crime free zones with increased criminal penalties.
· Further support and encourage the continuation of existing crime sweeps and other joint deployment efforts between campus police and the Atlanta Police Department.
· Establish greater coordination between MARTA police and campus police.
· Clarify campus police jurisdiction to issue city ordinances and encourage specific engagement between City and County prosecutors, the Courts and campus police departments