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Whitepaper: Purchasing Security Systems for K-12 Schools: Procurement Trends, Resources, and Best Practices

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K-12 school districts have had to overcome a number of major hurdles in recent years.

Schools had to bounce back from a pandemic that disrupted the traditional educational process and exacerbated teacher shortages. Once they returned to on-campus instruction, they were faced with increased levels of mental and emotional distress among students and staff as well as heightened anxiety from increased violence and several deadly school shootings occurring throughout the U.S.

In an effort to create safer and more stable learning environments for students, and safer workplaces for teachers and staff, many schools have made considerable investments in improving their security posture.

In addition to adding resources to increase support for social and emotional well-being, many school leaders are investing in new technologies and upgrades of existing technologies for their campuses.

These include technologies such as:

  • Access control systems
  • Video surveillance systems
  • Weapons detection systems
  • Mass notification systems
  • Panic buttons
  • Anonymous tip reporting

As districts continue to make these investments, it is important for them to be aware of the various funding sources and procurement methods available to them. To provide K-12 schools with guidance, this whitepaper offers information on recent contracting and campus security spending trends in the education sector as well as a list of procurement methods that school leaders may want to consider as they invest in new safety solutions.

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2023 Sustainable Safety Report

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Evolv’s 2023 Environmental, Social, and Governance (“ESG”) Report was published on April 15. For our inaugural report, we have chosen “Sustainable Safety” as our overarching theme, reflecting our commitment to integrating sustainability into our business and our mission to make the world a safer place to live, work, learn, and play. At Evolv, we believe that safety and sustainability are not mutually exclusive but are intrinsically linked components of a secure and thriving future.

This Report highlights how our innovative technology is setting a new standard in the security industry by offering efficient security screening that embodies privacy by design, helping eliminate bias and overly intrusive searches from the security screening process.

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Report: Gun Violence in America: A Survey on Americans’ Anxiety

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The findings in our second annual report “Gun Violence in America: A Survey on American’s Anxiety” paint a picture of a citizenry that is exhausted and frustrated, and willing to alter their behavior in order to create safer places where they go to learn, work, live and play. Our neighbors and fellow citizens want to be safe when they go to the grocery store, to see a movie, visit a theme park and go to school.

While this report does not offer a solution, download this report to help understand the toll gun violence is taking on all Americans, not just those who have been directly affected by it. With a better understanding, we can begin to work together to find solutions that reduce the amount of violence, lower Americans’ anxiety and retain the freedoms and liberties we have come to love in this country.

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Report: Gun Violence in America: The Impact on Educators

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Last year, when we measured Americans’ anxiety around gun violence for our inaugural report, we found people were carrying a tremendous amount of anxiety around – even for everyday activities, like going to the movies. But following a year that broke the record for the most school shootings in more than four decades, we wanted to not only understand if/how Americans’ anxiety has changed, we wanted to paint a picture of what all of this gun violence is doing to our teachers.

Download this report to discover the impact gun violence in America has had on our teachers and learn how to identify new ways to create safer, more supportive environments for them.

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Whitepaper: World’s First AI-enabled Integrated Weapons Detection and Screening System for Healthcare Organizations

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Challenges

Healthcare organizations experience workplace violence more than any other industry. Hospital and other healthcare-related settings experience elevated stress levels for patients, their families, and friends, which is exacerbated by issues such as substance abuse, mental health disorders, homelessness, and violent crimes and traumatic incidents tied to sexual abuse, domestic violence, gang activity, gunshots, and stabbings.

“The Percentage of registered nurses who experienced on-the-job violence spiked 55% in six months in 2021”

Failings of Traditional Weapons Detection and Screening Approaches

Putting aside poor adoption rates, these walk-through metal detectors and handheld wands are intrusive and fraught with inefficiencies. They are based on decades-old technologies that require significant time and resources to manage, deliver poor experiences for patients, visitors, and staff, and create security risks.

Healthcare weapons screening solutions must balance the need to protect patients, staff, visitors, and assets against providing a welcoming environment and ensuring rapid delivery of quality medical care.

Fill out the form to download this whitepaper and learn about the Evolv weapons detection solution enables healthcare organizations to accelerate physical security screening while maintaining the highest degree of weapons detection accuracy.

Prescribing the Evolv Express® System and Evolv Insights® for Healthcare Weapons Screening

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Summary

In response to rising violent assaults towards healthcare workers, healthcare facilities are taking steps to protect their staff, patients, and visitors by instituting additional security screening practices and systems. But metal detectors—both walkthrough and hand-held wands—come with significant drawbacks. For incoming patients, they are invasive and can increase anxiety and stress further. Hand wands, for example, only work if they are held about one inch off the body of the person.

In this whitepaper, we outline 7 ways to use weapons screening data from Evolv Insights® and to improve patient, staff, and visitor safety.

Violence and Safety in Healthcare Facilities Are a Problem

In addition to the above, both walkthrough and hand-held metal detectors generate a lot of false positives and the associated secondary checks are problematic, especially for incoming patients with serious health issues. And when there is a surge in incoming patients, staff, and visitors, metal detectors cannot scale to handle the increased volume.

Fill out the form to download this whitepaper and learn more about the current holes in traditional security and how Evolv Express® can help address those areas.

Engaging the Evolv Express® System and Evolv Insights® for Ticketing Venue Security Screening

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Summary

Ingress security screening remains a significant pain point for most ticketing venues. Fans and patrons want touchless, frictionless experiences, and ticketing venues want to give that to them. At the same time, ticketing venues must ensure the safety and security of fans and patrons by instituting appropriate security measuring— which includes security screening. But these legacy approaches to weapons screening are simply not a good fit for several reasons.

In this whitepaper, we outline 11 ways to use security screening data from Evolv Insights® and improve fan and guest experience – and better security

Legacy Security Screening Fails at Fan and Patron Experience

Legacy walkthrough and hand-wand metal detectors are a significant hurdle. They cannot scale to meet the volumes of fans and patrons who need to be screened. A large percentage of security alarms are false positives, prompting fans and patrons to pass through secondary security screening. Lengthy lines form in front of event entrances, which frustrate fans and patrons and create additional security risks. At the same time, unable to get fans and patrons into the venue, organizations lose opportunities for additional revenue from concessions and
different retail stores.

Fill out the form to download this whitepaper and learn more about the current holes in traditional security and how Evolv Express® can help address those areas.

Whitepaper: The New Standard for Weapons Detection

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Summary

Physical security is always about more than detection technology alone. Security screening involves an integrated system of people, processes, and technologies that work together to address the threat in a specific operating environment. And defining the right technology to balance physical safety and guest experience relies on understanding how it fits within this broader system. While the right technology can harmonize with the people and processes that deploy it and thereby improve physical security, the wrong technology can in fact hinder the important work of safeguarding the public, putting an undue burden on security teams and increasing the risk of physical harm.

Every operating environment is unique, which is why re-evaluating what worked for airports, prisons, and municipal buildings is so critical to understanding the right security solutions for significantly different types of venues, their unique visitors, and the potential threats they may encounter. Critically examining historical standards based only on the technologies available at the time is the first step in this re-evaluation.

The next step?

A new standard that is better aligned to more types of venues, their business goals, their visitors, and their security needs. By exploring what’s possible with modern technology, what’s operationally sustainable for the people and processes across security teams, and how the system as a whole can better meet its objectives, venues can address the needs of both their employees and the visiting public alike, all while maintaining the high standards of weapons detection required to prevent the catastrophic loss of life.

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Weighing the Value of Evolv Express® System Integrations and Evolv Insights® for K-12 Schools

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Summary

In response to school gun violence, many K-12 schools are looking at ways to bolster their security. Walkthrough and hand-held metal detectors are often cited as an option. But these legacy approaches to weapons screening are simply not a good fit for several reasons.

In this whitepaper, we outline 8 ways to use security screening data from Evolv Insights® and Integrations to improve school safety.

Schools Safety and Security are a Top Concern

School ingress volume, invasive security measures, alert fatigue, lack of SOC integration, and the inability to differentiate between everyday items and threats means that traditional metal detectors are failing the needs of modern life.

Fill out the form to download this whitepaper and learn more about the current holes in traditional security and how Evolv Express® can help address those areas.

Report: Guns in America: A Survey on Public Violence, Anxiety, and Threats

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“Guns in America: A Survey on Public Violence, Anxiety, and Threats” is a new report that quantifies not only the impact Americans’ anxiety around guns has on their everyday lives but also demonstrates the choices they make – and the businesses they patronize – are affected by the level of risk or threat Americans perceive those places to have.  

Download this report to learn more about the mental toll gun violence, shootings, and terrorist events are having on Americans across the country. 

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