“The bottom line from this report is that many school districts comply with the minimum legal standards, but those minimum standards are not enough to guarantee student safety. With an increase in funding allowing for more technology at the student’s hands, the issue will continue to worsen. Survey results from the 2022 cybersecurity report show that the majority of school districts failed to follow through on their written internet policies with effective monitoring of students’ online activities. “With this latest report, issued today, OSA’s Government Accountability Division is following up on the 2017 recommendations to ensure corrective action has been taken,” the 2022 cyber security report states. OSA surveyed school districts throughout the state to determine if they implemented recommendations from a 2017 cybersecurity report also conducted by the Office of the State Auditor. On Thursday, the Mississippi Office of the State Auditor (OSA) released a follow-up cybersecurity report regarding students’ ability to access potentially harmful and explicit materials online. The commissioners concluded that OSHA and the DOL failed to establish either industry or employee practice to support their claim that a reasonable person would recognize a hazard necessitating PPE-in this case, bulletproof vests.Survey results show a majority of school districts failed to follow through on written internet policies with effective monitoring of students’ online activities. An industry expert appearing on behalf of the employer testified there is no standard industry requirement for the use of bulletproof vests. Even the Department of Labor’s (DOL) own expert testified in a deposition that he knew of no security agencies that mandated the use of bulletproof vests for armed guards and that there were no consensus standards in the security industry requiring the use of such vests.Īnother department expert acknowledged that the syllabus for the Pennsylvania state police lethal weapons course for armed guards does not include a vest requirement. The Turnpike Commission contracted Schaad to provide armed guards “to act as a deterrent” to robbery of the collection vans. Schaad’s employees had not experienced any prior incidents of gun violence on the Turnpike Commission’s contract, and the Turnpike Commission did not provide bulletproof vests for its own tellers or require their use. The commissioners concluded that Schaad only provided bulletproof vests out of an abundance of caution-an extra level of “safety”-not because it recognized that they were necessary. Schaad told OSHA inspectors that some guards did not wear a vest because they found it uncomfortable. The employer had provided its guards with bulletproof vests, spending approximately $30,000 on them in 20, and encouraged armed guards to wear the vests but did not require it. The guard and another Turnpike Commission employee were shot and killed in the attempt. Schaad had a contract with the Pennsylvania Turnpike Commission (PTC) from 1997 through 2016 to provide armed guards to accompany Turnpike Commission tellers as they drove unmarked vans to tollbooth stations, collected toll revenues, and provided tollbooth operators with money to make change.Ī Schaad guard, who was not wearing a bulletproof vest, was riding in the passenger seat of an unmarked toll collection van containing $58,000, which was driven by a Turnpike Commission teller.Ī retired Pennsylvania state trooper, armed with multiple guns and wearing body armor and a camouflage mask, approached the van in an attempt to commit robbery. The commissioners concluded that OSHA failed to demonstrate a “recognized” hazard necessitating the use of bulletproof vests and vacated the agency’s citation of the employer.Īn armed guard employed by Schaad Detective Agency, Inc., was shot and killed on March 20, 2016, during an attempted robbery on the Pennsylvania Turnpike.
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