Security Communications
973-2100

Baxter Bruce, Supervisor

SECURITY COMMUNICATIONS DUTIES

• Protect the students and employees of USD 259.
• Protect 564 million dollars of school district assets - buildings, equipment, and contents.
• Monitor alarm systems for all schools and USD 259 property, 24 hours a day.
• Check each building into day/night mode.
• Test each building alarm system at least twice a day, via the phone lines.
• Keep a report of building occupancy after hours and over the weekends.
• Dispatch security officers and keep a record of their activity.
• Record security incidents - alarms, thefts, assaults, threats, etc.
• Assist school based security officers and building administrators.
• Coordinate emergency efforts with 911.
• Check all Kansas-One Call dig permits for any USD 259 buried lines.
• Monitor the weather.
• Report severe weather conditions to school district officials.
• We have notification procedures to handle any type of crisis.  We make sure the people who need to know stay informed.  This includes the school district - wide crisis team.
• We handle phone calls from inside the school district and from the public.  We have the only phone line in the school district which will be answered 24 hrs. a day, everyday of the year.  We take phone calls for emergencies as well as for school district information and directory assistance.
• We serve as the information desk for the School Service Center.