Students gather near the University of Central Arkansas' Student Center. UCA officials have announced improvements to the security and notification systems on campus. |
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CONWAY - University of Central Arkansas officials have announced improvements to the security and notification systems on campus.
The upgrades come a year after a deadly campus shooting that killed 18-year-old Ryan Henderson of Little Rock and 19-year-old Chavares Block of Dermott.
After the shooting the number of calls jammed cell-phone lines and some parents complained that e-mail notification to their children was slow.
The new notification system includes text messages, e-mails, phone calls, Web-site updates and sirens with audio messages. Also the communications center has upgraded its 911 equipment and campus police radios have been upgraded to allow officers to patch in to Conway and Faulkner County authorities more easily.
UCA used the notification system during severe weather and when a police officer was shot and wounded at a nearby apartment in March.
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