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Downtown Augusta incidents put spotlight on safety

...place to be is very simple," west Augusta resident Butch Storm e-mailed. "The sheriff travels with two armed security officers. How reassuring is that? He is the first sheriff in the history of Richmond County to feel so insecure about his...

http://chronicle.augusta.com/news/government/city-ink/2013-05-11/downtown-august
Expect changes for A Day in the Country festival

...opening off Prep Phillips Drive. The Reynolds and East Boundary opening is being changed to exclusive use by artists, security officers and festival staff."We will have more people on this opening to take and sell tickets," Norris said. "And...

http://chronicle.augusta.com/things-do/applause/2013-05-01/expect-changes-day-co
German club trying to fight neo-Nazi fan violence

...hounded out of their bus, pelted with stones and bottles and threatened with a knife.Dortmund employs nearly 800 security officers to cover a stadium with a seating capacity of 80,720. The club has invested $330,000 in a camera system to help...

http://chronicle.augusta.com/sports/other-sports/2013-02-25/german-club-trying-f
Airport insecurity: Why is the TSA growing more dysfunctional?

...don't know, either.I don't know why on Earth security officers with the Transportation Security Administration would...during the more than 120 hours of training a TSA security officer is supposed to go through.If you think "more than...

http://chronicle.augusta.com/opinion/joe-hotchkiss-columns/2013-03-02/airport-in
SC lawmakers try to prevent new security breach

...requirement. He also changed the agency's structure, one factor in the mishap. The agency's top information-security officer now reports directly to Blume, ensuring recommendations aren't dismissed as they had been by those below senior...

http://chronicle.augusta.com/news/metro/2013-03-23/sc-lawmakers-try-prevent-new-
Woman charged with crashing Augusta National gate

...off Berckmans Road in a Nissan Altima about 12:30 a.m. April 2.Police said Hall disregarded Augusta National security officers' verbal warnings to stop.She drove onto the grass at the service entrance and continued driving recklessly on...

http://chronicle.augusta.com/news/crime-courts/2013-04-08/woman-charged-crashing
How a strawberry Pop-Tart can teach the lost art of discernment

...against the TSA's utter insanity of searching a 3-year-old girl's wheelchair for security breaches, because security officers were blindly, unthinkingly following "the rules," whatever they are.And it's that kind of brainless enforcement...

http://chronicle.augusta.com/opinion/joe-hotchkiss-columns/2013-03-10/how-strawb
South Carolina senators asked to consider adding two oversight jobs

...Statewide oversight of computer policies could be separated into two new positions. While a chief information security officer would be responsible for protecting data, a statewide privacy officer would define exactly what should be protected...

http://chronicle.augusta.com/news/metro/2012-12-05/south-carolina-senators-asked
These days, everybody's a critic - but not everybody is an artist

...the Web, repurposed by someone sorely lacking artistic vision. Remember the cartoon Rick did showing an airport security officer performing a cavity search on a Thanksgiving turkey? A blogger thought the cartoon would look better with excessive...

http://chronicle.augusta.com/opinion/joe-hotchkiss-columns/2013-01-05/these-days
Richmond schools may hire more security officers

The Richmond County School System could soon hire two additional school safety officers to patrol the district's 36 elementary schools as a way to enhance security and deter intruders.The move was approved by the Richmond County Board of Education's finance committee at its monthly meeting Tuesday but must go before the full board Thursday to go into effect.

http://chronicle.augusta.com/news/education/2013-01-15/school-system-considers-h