Weighing in on School Video Surveillance Policies @ The Latest SecurityInfoWatch.com

http://www.securityinfowatch.com/article/article.jsp?id=12364&siteSection=306: "A new 'best practices' policy from the Arkansas School Boards Association suggests how to deal with video surveillance footage captured at the state's public schools. Not surprisingly, the suggested policy (download it from the ASBA [MSWord document]), which was released earlier this summer, does not get into details of frame rate, or video resolution, or any technical specifics. Rather, the ASBA looks at such issues as how to transfer video footage to other schools, whether video surveillance clips should be attached to the student record, and how the campus should be notified that cameras are being used. "

SBInet Virtual Border Fence Still Not Successful @ The Latest SecurityInfoWatch.com

http://www.securityinfowatch.com/article/article.jsp?id=12413&siteSection=306: "TUCSON, Ariz. -- Because of a software glitch, the first high-tech 'virtual fence' on the nation's borders remains inoperable, three months after its scheduled debut. Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff said he is withholding further payment to the prime contractor, Boeing Co., until the success of the pilot project stretching 28 miles near the border southwest of Tucson."

2 Students Shot at Delaware State Univ. @ The Latest SecurityInfoWatch.com

http://www.securityinfowatch.com/article/article.jsp?id=12417&siteSection=306: "DOVER, Del. -- Two students were shot and wounded, one seriously, at Delaware State University early Friday, and the campus was locked down as police searched for a gunman, officials said. Classes were canceled for the day and students were being kept inside. 'They've been directed to stay in their dorms,' said Carlos Holmes, a university spokesman. 'We don't know where the shooter's at.' At the university's main entrance, swing-arm gates were down to prevent people from driving onto campus. The students were shot near the Memorial Hall gymnasium around 1 a.m., according to a news release on the university's Web site."

Student Brings Fake Bomb into Logan Airport @ The Latest SecurityInfoWatch.com

http://www.securityinfowatch.com/article/article.jsp?id=12431&siteSection=306: "BOSTON -- A 19-year-old student at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology walked into Boston's Logan International Airport on Friday with a fake bomb strapped to her chest and was arrested at gunpoint, authorities said. Star Simpson, who is from Hawaii, wore a computer circuit board, wiring and a putty that later turned out to be Play-Doh strapped over her black hooded sweat shirt and in plain view, said State Police Maj. Scott Pare, the commanding officer at the airport. 'She's extremely lucky she followed the instructions or deadly force would have been used,' Pare told The Associated Press. 'And she's lucky to be in a cell as opposed to the morgue.'"

Blackwater License Revoked in Iraq @ The Latest for Security Executives SecurityInfoWatch.com

http://www.securityinfowatch.com/article/article.jsp?id=12335&siteSection=305: "BAGHDAD -- The Iraqi government said Monday that it was revoking the license of an American security firm accused of involvement in the deaths of eight civilians in a firefight that followed a car bomb explosion near a State Department motorcade."

'Jihadi' Images, Detonator Video Found

'Jihadi' Images, Detonator Video Found: "TAMPA - A laptop computer deputies found when they pulled over two University of South Florida students in South Carolina contained a video made by one of the men showing how to use a toy to detonate a bomb remotely, a federal prosecutor said Friday. On that video, the student, Ahmed Mohamed, said the detonator could 'save one who wants to be a martyr for another day, another battle,' Assistant U.S. Attorney Jay Hoffer said. The prosecutor said that video was posted by Mohamed on YouTube, a popular Web site."

Armed student's motives unclear Dearborn

Armed student's motives unclear Dearborn: "His face painted black, Houssein Zorkot entered a park in east Dearborn Sept. 8, cocked an AK47 he had bought the same day, and then tried to flee police after they confronted him, authorities say. Were those the actions of a confused young man or those of a potential terrorist with ill intentions?"

Bush Selects Ex-Judge as Attorney General Nominee - washingtonpost.com

Bush Selects Ex-Judge as Attorney General Nominee - washingtonpost.com: "President Bush today announced his nomination of retired federal judge Michael B. Mukasey to become the nation's 81st attorney general, moving to install a law-and-order conservative at the Justice Department to help wage the war on terrorism while hoping to avoid a confirmation fight with Senate Democrats."

US investigates into Blackwater incident - Yahoo! News

US investigates into Blackwater incident - Yahoo! News: "WASHINGTON - The State Department moved quickly Monday to tamp down anger and possible repercussions after the alleged killing of eight Iraqi civilians by a private security firm hired to protect U.S. diplomats in Iraq. "