Feds to fund controversial school surveillance

Feds to fund controversial school surveillance
Tags: Government, Security
November 29, 2005

The New Standard: School violence has led administrators to try a number of solutions, from low-tech accountability to RFID tracking of students. But privacy advocates fear the long-range implication of the latter.

Government involvement only adds to the controversy. Even though school violence is at its lowest rate in a decade, according to the federal government's own statistics, the Justice Department's "School Safety Technologies" grants will be distributed to schools that develop proposals in four broadly defined areas: integrated physical security systems, bus-fleet monitoring systems, low-level force devices and school safety training.