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Campus Safety

The ACEF Campus Safety section features news, articles, events, legislation, and tools for researchers as well as practitioners regarding vulnerability assessments and campus safety. Readers are also directed to the campus safety organizational support links. All articles are searchable by research and practitioner knowledge.


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Fact Sheet for Colleges and Universities
CFATS Brochure
CFATS Emergency Responders Brochure

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Vulnerability Assessment Checklist

ETRA Questionnaire

ACEF Crime Prevention Through Environmental Design (CPTED) Recommendations

ACEF Crime Prevention Through Environmental Design (CPTED) Resource List

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Campus Safety


School storm protection is spotty in tornado zones
May 23, 2013
With its single-story design and cinder-block walls, Plaza Towers Elementary School may have seemed sturdy when it was built a couple of generations ago. But a powerful tornado revealed the building's lack of modern safety standards, destroying the school and killing seven students. Unlike several other schools in the Oklahoma City area, Plaza Towers had no "safe room" in which students and teachers could seek protection from a twister.


Visiting Keith Valley Middle School? First swipe your driver's license
May 23, 2013
Security is now more than ever a top priority for school districts across the nation, and Hatboro-Horsham officials have been working tirelessly to improve the district’s school safety measures. While security has always played a pivotal part of the district’s structure, in the months following the Sandy Hook massacre, Hatboro-Horsham has taken several large strides to keep students safe.



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