Exposing School Security Risks and Closing the Gaps
By: Michelle Cummings Managing Director, Hedge Security Solutions An educators goal is to provide a full and meaningful education to all students under their charge without the worry of outside influences disrupting the message. Violent events such gun violence and mass shootings do more than just disrupt the learning process, they leave damaging scars […]
What Could have Prevented the Oxford High School Shooting?
By Michelle Cummings and Daniel Dean January 19, 2024 Recently, we studied the independent investigation conducted by Guidepost Solutions, LLC, in reference to the school shooting at Oxford High School in Michigan on November 30, 2021. Four students were murdered, and seven other people were injured. This study was roughly a 550-page document that covered […]
2023 Proved to be a Violent One for the Books
By: Daniel Dean, Michelle Cummings January 12, 2023 UPDATE – on January 14, 2024, the Principal of Perry High School died, bringing the number killed in this tragic event to two and the number injured down to four. As we enter our new year, it is shocking that the United States experienced its first school […]
Unleashing Your Situational Awareness
By Michelle Cummings December 13, 2023 Situational Awareness applies to EVERYONE EVERYWHERE in ALL situations. We need to be aware of what is going on around us so we can decide what our next move will be. There are three basic levels to Situational Awareness. The first is Perception of the Situation. This is simply […]