Case Study: San Rafael City Schools achieves faster incident response and campus-wide security with Verkada

How a School Community Protects 13 Campuses with Hybrid Cloud Security

San Rafael City Schools (SRCS), which serves about 7,200 students across 13 campuses, faced chronic reliability and downtime with a legacy analog DVR camera system. Dave Pedroli, Director of Maintenance, Operations and Facilities, tested and adopted Verkada’s hybrid cloud cameras and Command software to replace failing cameras and hard drives and to improve perimeter and facility security.

Verkada deployed an initial 86 cameras (with 114 more planned) and enabled mobile/web access, motion notifications, people/vehicle search, unlimited cloud archiving, granular user permissions and sharing tools. The result: footage search times dropped from hours to minutes, an incident claim was resolved within 30 minutes using phone-accessed video, and administrators can instantly share live or archived clips with law enforcement—demonstrating how Verkada’s hybrid cloud solution sharply improved response time, evidence management, and coverage across all 13 campuses.

San Rafael City Schools

Dave Pedroli

Director of Maintenance