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Washoe County School District tied its Geographic Information System with school police functions, winning national recognition in the process. Vanessa Simpson, GIS analyst for the school district, loaded the software onto three dispatch computers to provide answers to two questions posed by school police:

The first: Should an incident occur in the community, what schools are within a certain radius of the ruckus? Nearby schools can be locked down, and the students kept inside. Such a situation occurred near McQueen High School a few years back, says Simpson.

And, although daycare centers, charter schools and private schools are not in its jurisdiction, the school district also maps their location so they can be notified as well. Read full story:

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