School security consultant and school security expert witness.
Roger H. Schmedlen, CPP, CFE, CII, MIPI provides consulting services to school districts including comprehensive security surveys, as well as expert witness and litigation consulting for defense and plaintiff attorneys.

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Security risk in the school campus environments is not a new phenomenon. The event headlined above occurred on May 18, 1927 in Bath Township, Michigan. Like many of the more recent highly publicized school events, it would appear that this historic atrocity may not have been foreseeable.
Today, there is a perception that the volume of adverse security related events is increasing in school districts throughout the United States. Public awareness of perceived risks in these school environments has been heightened by the media. It is believed that lawsuits stemming from adverse school security related events may be on the rise.

One significant problem found in many school districts is the failure of administrators and school boards to view security exposure in a realistic manner, believing that their communities do not offer such risk.

Although some of the highly publicized events would not be considered foreseeable, reasonable access control, compliance with community standards and reasonably heightened levels of security awareness just make good sense in today's world.

While some schools may have taken advantage of DHS funded contingency planning projects, these surveys usually did little to identify real world risk as considerations and recommendations were geared toward response in the event of a terrorist event.

Mr. Schmedlen's hands-on expertise in this area comes from having personally conducted comprehensive physical security surveys of two high schools, an alternative high school, two middle schools, ten elementary schools, a central district maintenance facility and a transportation department facility where a district's 75 district busses are serviced and stored, as well as a relatively small synagogue. Additionally, in his position at his former business he was responsible for the operations of the uniformed security division which provided contract security officer services at high schools.

For information concerning minimizing exposure at schools and educational facilities, please follow this link to: School Security.

Please scroll down to view the school security expert witness case titles and the security surveys/risk analyses conducted by Mr. Schmeden at schools and religious facilities..

SECURITY EXPERT WITNESS LITIGATION CASE HISTORY
SCHOOL SECURITY

Papke v
Howe Military School et al
School security expert witness for plaintiff
LaGrangeCounty, Indiana

James Jenkins habeas corpus
School security expert witness for petitioner
United States District Court, Central District of California

Jaclyn Fedak v
Garretson Security & Inverstigations, et al
School security expert witness for defendant
Brooke County, West Virginia

Alex Maurer v
Metropolitan School District of Lawrence Township, et al.
School security expert witness for plaintiff
Marion County, Indiana

An attachment to Mr. Schmedlen's curriculum vitae identifies the clients in these matters and contains a recap of the cases.

SECURITY SURVEYS OF EDUCATIONAL FACILITIES AND RELIGIOUS FACILITIES

Birmingham Public School District (18 Locations)
Birmingham, Michigan

The Kollel Institute of Greater Detroit
Oak Park, Michigan

An attachment to Mr. Schmedlen's curriculum vitae recaps the security projects listed above.

Questions on this subject? Write Roger H. Schmedlen, CPP, CFE, CII, MIPI

School Security Expert Witness travel time is capped as follows on litigation cases:
3 hours round trip: Illinois (Northeast Illinois including Chicago IL), Indiana (North of Muncie IN), Michigan (All of Michigan except MI Upper Peninsula), Ohio (Columbus OH and Northern OH)
4 hours round trip: Delaware (All of DE), District of Columbia (Metropolitan Washington DC area), Florida (Orlando FL south including Florida keys), Illinois (All of IL except, Northeast Illinois, Chicago IL), Indiana (South of Muncie IN), Iowa (All of IA east of Council Bluffs IA), Kansas (Eastern KS area including Kansas City KS), Kentucky (All of KY), Maryland (All of MD), Michigan (Central and Eastern Upper Peninsula, MI), Minnesota (East of Detroit Lakes MN), Missouri (All of MO), New Jersey (All of NJ), New York (All of NY including NYC), North Carolina (West of Raleigh Durham NC metro area), Ohio (Southern OH, south of Columbus OH), Oregon (Coastal OR areas including Portland OR), Pennsylvania (All of PA), South Carolina (Greenville SC Spartanburg SC area), Tennessee (All of TN), Virginia (Western VA west of Richmond VA), Washington (Coastal WA cities), West Virginia (All of WV), Wisconsin (All of WI)
5 hours round trip: Alabama (All of AL), Arkansas (All of AK), Arizona (Southern half of AZ south of Prescott AZ to Nogales AZ and including the Phoenix AZ and Tucson AZ areas), Arizona (Northwest AZ including Lake Mead, AZ and Las Vegas, NV areas), California (Western CA coastal cities regions and Southern California including Los Angeles CA, Orange County CA and northwestern regions such as San Francisco CA), Colorado (Boulder CA and Denver CA areas), Connecticut (All of CT), Florida (North of Orlando FL metro area, Florida Panhandle and of of FL in Central Time Zone), Georgia (All of GA including Atlanta GA), Iowa (All of IA west of Council Bluffs IA), Kansas (Most of KS west of Kansas City KS), Louisiana (All of LA), Maine (All of ME), Massachusetts (All of MA), Michigan (Western Upper Peninsula MI), Minnesota (West of Detroit Lakes MN), Mississippi (All of MS), Nebraska (All of NE east of CO), Nevada (Extreme southern NV including Las Vegas NV region), New Hampshire (All of NH), North Carolina (Raleigh Durham NC east), North Dakota (East of Minot ND), Oklahoma (All of OK), Rhode Island (All off RI), South Carolina (All of SC except the Greenville SC Spartanburg SC area), South Dakota (East of Rapid City SD), Texas (Northeast TX including Dallas Fort Worth TX), Vermont (All of VT), Virginia (Eastern VA including Richmond VA)
6 hours round trip: Arizona (Northern half of AZ), California (Eastern CA north of Death Valley CA area), Colorado (All of CO except for Boulder CA and Denver CA areas), Idaho (All of ID), Montana (All of MT), Nebraska (Western NE), Nevada (All of NV except extreme south Las Vegas NV region), New Mexico (All of NM), North Dakota (Minot ND and west), Oregon (Eastern 3/4 of OR), South Dakota (Rapid City SD and west), Texas (Northeast TX including Dallas Fort Worth TX), Utah (All of UT), Washington (All of WA except coastal WA cities), Wyoming (All of WY)
Negotiable: Alaska, American Samoa, Guam, Hawaii, Northern Mariana Islands, Puerto Rico, U.S. Virgin Islands

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School security consultant and school security expert witness.

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