NEWTOWN, Conn. (AP) — A Connecticut company said Friday it has nearly finished installing state-of-the-art security equipment at a school to which students were moved after the deadly Newtown school shooting.

Thomas Marino Jr.'s father owns Advanced Security Technologies in Stratford, which provides security services to Newtown High School and was told to remotely lock down buildings on Dec. 14, the day of the massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School.

"It was hard for us to realize what was happening," Marino said. In an effort to provide some peace of mind to Sandy Hook students, staff and parents, he decided to reach out to about a dozen security manufacturers and ask whether they'd donate equipment if his father's company contributed the labor to install it at the new school in Monroe.

"Nobody said no," he said.

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Note: Richard Novia is responsible for Newtown High School's purchase of a surveillance system, under what have been described in this thread as questionable circumstances.

Now the company which apparently maintains this system is donating (of course) to Sandy Hook School; obviously other schools will be inclined to purchase systems, as well.