Sara Mosqueda

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Associate Editor and Writer, ASIS Int'l and Freelance Journalist at Freelance

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Q&A: Building Safety into the Schoolhouse Walls

3 weeks ago | asisonline.org | Sara Mosqueda

Q&A: Building Safety into the Schoolhouse Walls Facilities management in schools is about more than just the classrooms or gymnasiums, windows and doors, or all the other brick, mortar, and physical components that help create a learning environment for students. Facilities—and their ability to keep students, staff, and others safe—rely on people and training them to understand the impact they have on security solutions like access control, locking mechanisms, maintenance, and planning.
Q&A: Why School Nurses Should Get a Seat at the School Safety Table

3 weeks ago | asisonline.org | Sara Mosqueda

Q&A: Why School Nurses Should Get a Seat at the School Safety Table Many nursing environments present similar obstacles and opportunities, regardless of where the hospital is or the specialty of the medical practice. But school nurses face different challenges. Instead of a doctor’s office or hospital, these nurses practice at a junction point of education and healthcare, and they must be prepared to respond to public health emergencies and individual severe health conditions.
Q&A: School Safety Directors Offer Perspective and Scope

3 weeks ago | asisonline.org | Sara Mosqueda

Q&A: School Safety Directors Offer Perspective and Scope School safety and security efforts are as multifaceted and complex as the students, staff, and families that make up a school and its community. Jason Stoddard serves on the advisory council for ZeroNow, a national organization focused on safer schools.
Essential Security Lessons from Partners Across K-12 Education

3 weeks ago | asisonline.org | Sara Mosqueda

Essential Security Lessons from Partners Across K-12 Education Nearly 26 years ago, the idea of what kind of security measures schools require was irrevocably altered when two teenage students walked into Columbine High School in Colorado with four different firearms, four knives, and 99 explosives. The two students murdered 12 students and one teacher before turning their firearms on themselves on 20 April 1999.
Trump Administration Disbands DOJ Team Working on Crypto Crimes

3 weeks ago | asisonline.org | Sara Mosqueda

Trump Administration Disbands DOJ Team Working on Crypto Crimes The Trump administration ordered the dissolution of a Justice Department team dedicated to targeting cryptocurrency crimes.
Nightclub Collapse in Santo Domingo Leaves at Least 184 Dead

3 weeks ago | asisonline.org | Sara Mosqueda

Nightclub Collapse in Santo Domingo Leaves at Least 184 Dead At around 1:00 a.m. on 8 April, the roof of the popular Jet Set nightclub in the Dominican Republic collapsed on top of a crowd of nearly 300 people. The club, located in the capital city of Santo Domingo, was hosting a performance of merengue artist Rubby Pérez at the time of the collapse.
Fast Facts: 4 Building Blocks of Supportive School Communities

3 weeks ago | asisonline.org | Sara Mosqueda

Fast Facts: 4 Building Blocks of Supportive School Communities While school shootings often grab headlines, active assailants are not the only threat students and staff face at schools. “Other types of violence include sexual assault, robbery, physical attack or fights, and threats of physical attack (with or without a weapon),” according to a 2023 report from the Learning Policy Institute, Safe Schools, Thriving Students: What We Know About Creating Safe and Supportive Schools.
Two Emerging Workforce Scams Can Lead to Dire Consequences

3 weeks ago | asisonline.org | Sara Mosqueda

Two Emerging Workforce Scams Can Lead to Dire Consequences This week, news emerged about two different trends that concern workforces: in Mexico, cartels use hiring scheme to force people into illegal cartel work, while North Korea seeks to infiltrate European and U.S. companies by placing compromised IT workers.
Experts Tell Congress Lack of Tracking Creates Cybersecurity Gaps for Medical Devices

3 weeks ago | asisonline.org | Sara Mosqueda

Experts Tell Congress Lack of Tracking Creates Cybersecurity Gaps for Medical Devices During a U.S. House hearing on 1 April, healthcare and cybersecurity experts said that it was no April Fools’ joke: there’s no well-established process in place tracking medical device inventory, leaving patients, operators, and healthcare staff at risk of being exploited by potential gaps in the cybersecurity of such devices.
Historic Helsinki Rail Station Locks in Added Access Security

4 weeks ago | asisonline.org | Sara Mosqueda

Industry News: Historic Helsinki Rail Station Locks in Added Access Security The Helsinki Central Railway Station Selects Assa Abloy for Retrofitting Historic Site’s LocksMore than 250,000 people travel through the Helsinki Central Railway station every day. This Finnish landmark, which has been in use for more than a century, recently underwent several renovations.