Over the past twenty years, the Victorian Liberal-National Party Coalition has consistently opposed the introduction of a supervised injecting facility for illicit drug users in Victoria. The inquiry report found that a facility could improve the health of injecting drug users, reduce drug-related harm in the community including demand on ambulance services, and seemed to enjoy public support. Albeit Liberal …
Security companies spent years pushing schools to buy more products — from “ballistic attack-resistant” doors to smoke cannons that spew haze from ceilings to confuse a shooter. The campus had become known as the “Safest School in America” after the $500,000 retrofit that Wooldridge helped install for his step-father’s firm, NetTalon Security Systems. “I don’t think I need research,” he …
Security companies spent years pushing schools to buy more products — from “ballistic attack-resistant” doors to smoke cannons that spew haze from ceilings to confuse a shooter. “Any company can claim anything they want.” Several years ago, Wooldridge helped his step-father’s firm, NetTalon Security Systems, install a $500,000 system that included smoke cannons at an Indiana school. The horror of …
