Public Matters blog

So I hate to brag, but I’ve gotten pretty good at this live blogging thing. I guess that whole “practice makes perfect” thing really does work. So here we are at TechSec Solutions in Delray Beach, Fla. It’s another early morning after a long day of presentations and I’m still processing all the information, but [...]

There are many disturbing elements to this article about the rising violence on the campus of Florida Memorial University. This particular story focuses on a video taken of an incident involving campus security officers arresting a student surrounded by a crowd of jeering onlookers. Watch here:

Similar to the video from Colby College here in [...]

DHS announced today that it has designated $7.7 million from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act for several airports to install video surveillance systems. The press release cites that Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky International, Ronald Reagan Washington National, Spokane International, Gerald R. Ford International and Boise, Idaho airports will receive a portion of the funds.
“State-of-the-art surveillance [...]

Not that I’ve been an overly dedicated blogger recently, but I’m taking the rest of the week off to do some hiking and canoing in the Adirondacks and I wanted to leave my followers with enough blog fodder to get you through until Friday.
I’ve been a little harsh on campus security officers in recent [...]

I’ve reached the point where there is no longer separation between my work and private life. I am a security-honed machine. Last night I was trying to unwind by watching some back-episodes of Comedy Central and low and behold Jeffrey Goldberg was on the Colbert Report talking about the theatrics of airport security, per [...]