THE SITUATION
Littleton Public Schools (LPS) is a premier school district located a few miles south of downtown Denver. LPS serves 28 square miles and includes the majority of the City of Littleton, Town of Columbine Valley, and portions of the municipalities of Bow Mar, Centennial, Greenwood Village, and the City of Englewood. With about 15,000 students, LPS offers a comprehensive education from preschool through Grade 12. Students attend 13 elementary schools, 4 middle schools, 3 high schools, several alternative programs, preschools, and two charter schools.
THE CHALLENGE
A few years ago, LPS suffered a fatal student shooting at their Arapahoe High School. “Our overall goal is pretty simple,” said Guy Grace, LPS Director of Security & Emergency Preparedness, “we must have quality technology delivering quality results, because we cannot have a successful educational experience without safety and security taken care of and taken care of well.” After a thorough review, Grace concluded that his legacy DVRs were just not meeting the expanding security needs of the school district.
THE SOLUTION
Littleton selected 3xLOGIC as a primary vendor for an upcoming bond issue and upon the bond issue’s successful outcome, began purchasing NVRs and cameras. “What I really liked was the hybrid NVR allowed me to incorporate existing analog cameras and add new IP cameras whenever I wanted.” Once the entire project is fully completed LPS will have a total 1400 cameras, and Grace expected the mix to be about onethird IP and two-thirds analog initially, with full migration to HD IP cameras completed my mid-2018. Also, as the project has progressed, LPS has been increasing the proportion of 3xLOGIC cameras in the overall mix, deploying over 10 different models of the cameras.
THE BENEFITS
- “Every day there is something we use the video for. I’ve been in this business for 28 years, back in the day we’d have a burglary a week, now they’re few and far between. We do have several incidents a day—student discipline issues, vandalism, suspicious incidents—but this system is a huge deterrent and it’s helping keep our school community safe,” Guy Grace.
- With proper camera placement and video quality, LPS has brought vandalism down more than 75%. Under the old video surveillance system, the district saw vandalism rates creeping back up.
- “3xLOGIC cameras have excellent ease of use, and because the LPS staff does a lot of maintenance work on installed cameras, that’s very important to us.”
THE PRODUCT
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The ease of use and the compliments we get on the 3xLOGIC system have been a big improvement—that’s huge. You want it to be a positive experience so that people will use it. If we’re using it, then we’re successfully improving security on our campuses.
3xLOGIC Partners to Make Schools Safe; A Conversation with Guy Grace
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