subject: School Security Programs - Ensuring the Safety and Protection of Our Nations' Schools [print this page] While some schools are looking to innovative safety equipment utilizing closed-circuit television (CCTV), metal detectors, and access control systems, many education systems struggle to find the money to fund such a security system. Because of the expanded use of technology to develop fake identification cards, it is a necessity to ensure that your school id cards contain several security features that will help protect from the risk of duplication. For example, having the school name, colors, and logo printed by the card manufacturer makes duplicating school IDs harder than those printed on an office printer. Color coding of ID badges is another quick and easy way to group students, faculty, staff, and guests, and to add an additional level of safety. Additional ways to add security to your student and staff identification badgesis adding holographic overlays, UV security inks, heat-sensitive/disappearing printing, as well as oversized or custom-designed identification badges.
But student identification badges aren't just for security. While an ordinary student ID card includes a picture, name, school emblem, and student ID number, they can also include much more than meets the eye. By incorporating proper technologies with your badges, students and staff can use their identification badges as a meal card in the cafeteria and in vending machines, to checkout library materials, to attend school sponsored events, and to access controlled buildings. And they don't have to keep track of multiple ID cards. When correctly designed and produced, school identification badges create a basic level of security and are economical to implement. By including other technologies with the ID badges, they can be used for various student endeavors. But the effectiveness of an ID card program is only as good as the security of the card, so it is important to protect your school ID cards with security features.
School Security Programs - Ensuring the Safety and Protection of Our Nations' Schools
