The district is also considering using video cameras and a buzzer system to identify adults before allowing access to building. Students and teachers practice emergency drills. It plans to install keypad locks on some of the doors at the elementary and middle schools. Access to school buildings will be limited to the main entrances, which will be monitored. Southern York also worked with Southern Regional Police to provide training to prepare school personnel to deal with a crisis or emergency.
Main entrance is unlocked all day, but door is visible from the main office.
After a guest enters through the main door, there is a foyer which you have to be buzzed passed. Office staff can see guest in the foyer. All of its buildings restrict access to one set of doors and keep those doors locked. Safety has been considered in the design of the district's new middle-school building and planned renovations to the high school. The district is also looking into increasing security in possible modifications to its elementary buildings.