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No question, keeping your property safe is a top priority. No one wants to come home to find their house has been broken into, or that their car has been stolen. This blog post will discuss some useful tips that can help you keep your property safe. Follow these tips and you can rest assured that your belongings are well-protected.
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Ridgewod NJ, Statement from Acting Attorney General Platkin on School Security in the Aftermath of the Uvalde, TX School Shooting :
Continue reading New Jersey to Step Up School Security after Texas Shooting
So you’ve invested in your truck and are massively enjoying jumping into it every day and going to work, running your errands or just taking a drive. Your truck is an extension of you and should be respected and treated in that manner. Without your truck, you might feel a bit lost so it’s definitely a good idea to be mindful of the way you maintain and look after it, as well as looking for the best ways to improve the performance.
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August 2,2018
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Ridgewood NJ, recent surveys reveal that 58% of Americans have been burgled, yet only 32% own home security systems.
Ooma Home [https://www.ooma.com/home-security/]— an innovative home security and monitoring platform, and creators of the Ooma Butterfleye security camera [https://www.ooma.com/home-security/butterfleye-security-camera/] — surveyed 1,000 Americans about their home security successes, woes, and desires.
Here’s what their response revealed:
24/7 live-streaming is America’s #1 most-wanted smart security feature at 58%: When asked what smart security features they desire most, 45% of those surveyed said advanced facial recognition features, while another 42% said automatic arming and disarming of the system as family members leave and come home.
25% of Americans have canceled a vacation due to home security concerns: 61% of respondents said they worry most about their residence being burgled whenever they are away rather than when they’re at home, and 38% said they worry about their pets being left alone.
33% of Americans who own home security systems have been burgled: When asked what could have put their house at risk, 55% said human error (e.g., their system doesn’t arm automatically). A smaller 33% say that their security camera didn’t notify them of the intrusion—inhibiting them from responding quickly.
The Ooma Butterfleye security camera provides 24/7 HD live-streaming, allowing owners to check-in on their homes from anywhere in their world from their mobile devices. It boasts numerous smart features, including facial recognition, offline recording during outages, and automatic arming and disarming.
The Stanley Healthcare solution includes Wi-Fi RFID badges that nurses, physicians and other personnel can use to identify their locations and call for assistance.
By Claire Swedberg
Sep 27, 2016—
The Valley Hospital, in Ridgewood, N.J., has been using a real-time location system (RTLS) to monitor the locations and identities of staff members who press their emergency badge. Before the hospital deployed the system, only 50 percent of personnel reported a sense of workplace safety. Once those workers began utilizing the RTLS, provided byStanley Healthcare, that figure rose to 85 percent.
The Valley Hospital rarely experiences violence in its ER, but there have been incidents in which employees have indicated feeling uncomfortable, the hospital reports. After members of a patient’s family prevented a nurse from leaving that patient’s room, that nurse asked the hospital to institute a better means of protecting personnel. The facility, which treats 74,000 patients in its emergency department each year, already offered wired emergency alarms in each room, but it decided that a wireless system would provide greater support to employees wherever they were in that department. The solution consists of Stanley Healthcare Wi-Fi-enabled call badges and software that helps security personnel identify who has placed a distress call, as well as where that person is located and what he or she looks like.
JUNE 18, 2015, 10:59 PM LAST UPDATED: THURSDAY, JUNE 18, 2015, 11:08 PM
BY JEFF GREEN AND MONSY ALVARADO
STAFF WRITERS |
THE RECORD
For as long as Mack Cauthen could remember, Bible study at Ebenezer Baptist Church in Englewood has always been open to not only members of the congregation, but anyone who is interested in learning and sharing their experiences.
But a day after nine people were killed during a prayer meeting at a historic black church in Charleston, S.C., Cauthen, a church deacon, and other North Jersey religious leaders were grappling with how to continue the church’s mission to welcome and attract new members while keeping their congregations safe.
“We are trying to reach as many people as possible to join us and to learn, but at the same time what do you do?” Cauthen asked. “Try and restrict people, and who is the judge?”
The Rev. Melanie Miller of the AME Zion Church in Hackensack said the shooting will compel churches to discuss what security measures can be instituted, while balancing the religious needs of the community.
“When things like this happen it not only instills fear, but at the same time we have to reach out to anyone who may feel isolated,” she said
https://www.northjersey.com/news/north-jersey-churches-wary-of-too-much-security-1.1358778
by Rick Wells 04/19/2015
After directing some sarcasm towards the ineffective bureaucracy, Gohmert says, “The truth is it ought to scare people because Homeland Security is so overwhelmed in trying to bring in and ship around illegal aliens and give amnesty to as many people as they can.” He faults the focus on lawbreaking and circumvention as the reason why, “They can’t do something as simple as protect the United States Capitol.”
He continues, saying, “A lot of people thought the fourth plane that those American heroes took down in Pennsylvania was probably going for the White House, information I had was he was going to the Capitol. And there are some surveys that show that the U.S. Capitol is the most recognized building in the world.”
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Security holes in power grid have federal officials scrambling
In Congress, the vulnerability of the power grid has emerged as among the most pressing domestic security concerns.
By Evan Halper
April 7, 2014, 3:00 a.m.
WASHINGTON — Adam Crain assumed that tapping into the computer networks used by power companies to keep electricity zipping through transmission lines would be nearly impossible in these days of heightened vigilance over cybersecurity.
When he discovered how wrong he was, his work sent Homeland Security Department officials into a scramble.
Crain, the owner of a small tech firm in Raleigh, N.C., along with a research partner, found penetrating transmission systems used by dozens of utilities to be startlingly easy. After they shared their discovery with beleaguered utility security officials, the Homeland Security Department began sending alerts to power grid operators, advising them to upgrade their software.
The alerts haven’t stopped because Crain keeps finding new security holes he can exploit.
“There are a lot of people going through various stages of denial” about how easily terrorists could disrupt the power grid, he said. “If I could write a tool that does this, you can be sure a nation state or someone with more resources could.”
Those sorts of warnings, along with vivid demonstrations of the grid’s vulnerability, such as an incident a year ago in which unknown assailants fired on a power station near San Jose, nearly knocking out electricity to Silicon Valley, have grabbed official attention. In Congress, the vulnerability of the power grid has emerged as among the most pressing domestic security concerns.
https://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-grid-security-20140407,0,5068036.story#ixzz2z35XlXdx
The Record: Letters, Saturday, Jan. 25
Saturday, January 25, 2014
The Record
Security an issue.at Ridgewood High
Ayal Vogel
Regarding “Bag the lunches” (Editorials, Jan. 22):
I cannot help questioning the motives of the Ridgewood schools superintendent and also ask the editors if any of them really cares or knows anything about the security of our schools.
– See more at: https://www.northjersey.com/news/opinions/241932421_The_Record__Letters__Saturday__Jan__25.html#sthash.ecDk91on.dpuf
Plan for Super Bowl safety covers stadium, entire region
Sunday January 26, 2014, 12:08 AM
BY KAREN SUDOL
STAFF WRITER
The Record
Behind the glamour, fanfare and excitement of the first Super Bowl to be played in New Jersey stands one of the largest coordinated law enforcement efforts ever assembled in the region to ensure that nothing — not a terrorist, a shooter or a bomber — disrupts the fans’ experience.
Some 100 law enforcement agencies have been working for two years to develop a comprehensive security plan for the game, which will draw an estimated 80,000 fans to MetLife Stadium in East Rutherford next Sunday.
– See more at: https://www.northjersey.com/news/Plan_for_Super_Bowl_safety_covers_stadium_entire_region.html#sthash.ouzCo53P.dpuf
Security Expert Claims To Gain Info On 70-K ObamaCare Records in 4 Minutes
January 21, 2014 – 3:08 PM
By Eric Scheiner
A cyber security expert claims he could gain access to 70,000 personal records of ObamaCare enrollees in about 4 minutes.
David Kennedy, CEO of TrustedSec, told Fox News Sunday the information can be obtained without even hacking.
Security for Super Bowl in place
Updated: January 15, 2014, 7:52 PM ET
By Jane McManus | ESPNNewYork.com
EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. — Law enforcement officials will use radiological detection devices, metal detectors and police dogs for a full-fledged anti-terrorism effort at Super Bowl XLVIII on Feb. 2.
“Nobody at this table needs to be reminded, in the shadow of the World Trade Center, how important this event is to make people safe in our region,” New Jersey Transit police chief Christopher Trucillo said.
Eight officials from various New York, New Jersey and national agencies were part of a news conference on security issues on Wednesday at MetLife Stadium. Their comments are the culmination of two years of planning for the first outdoor Super Bowl in a cold-weather climate.
The Super Bowl has been a Level 1 national security event since 2002, after the 9/11 attacks on New York City and Washington, D.C. This is the first year the Super Bowl has been held in the New York and New Jersey region. The FBI agent in charge of Super Bowl security, Aaron Ford, detailed the kinds of threats the group was preparing to address.
“We are fully integrated and unified with the New Jersey State Police and our law enforcement partners,” Ford said. “Our tactical teams have been training throughout the year for different scenarios to include active shooter, bomb threats and casualties related to chemical, biological, radiological or nuclear threats. We have a number of agents and professional staff prepared to respond.”
Although these efforts have been part of the planning and will continue on game day, NFL chief security officer Jeffrey Miller said it was being done so the fans could worry about the game, not safety.EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. — Law enforcement officials will use radiological detection devices, metal detectors and police dogs for a full-fledged anti-terrorism effort at Super Bowl XLVIII on Feb. 2.
“Nobody at this table needs to be reminded, in the shadow of the World Trade Center, how important this event is to make people safe in our region,” New Jersey Transit police chief Christopher Trucillo said.
https://espn.go.com/nfl/playoffs/2013/story/_/id/10299272/super-bowl-security-plan-put-place
