The Briefing is a weekly newsletter from our very own Austin Seman, President & Owner of Fairline Security. Each edition digs into what good security actually looks like, with straight answers, no pitch. In his first edition, Austin starts with the SoFi Stadium incident that went viral several months ago. A security contractor caught on camera threatening a concertgoer at a Los Bukis concert. The contractor was removed, a statement went out, everyone moved on. But Austin asks the question nobody did.... How did that person end up working a 70,000-seat venue in the first place? He breaks down what 20 years in the industry taught him about why moments like this happen, and why the answer almost always comes back to how security gets bough, not who's standing at the door. Read the full newsletter below.
A security guard at SoFi Stadium went viral last month for all the wrong reasons. 70,000 people in the building. Millions of views. They were removed. Statement issued. Story over. Except it's not. Nobody asked the real question. How did an unvetted, unsupervised contractor end up working a 70,000-person event in the first place? Who screened them? Who trained them? Who was supervising them that night? What was the bill rate that determined who showed up? I've been in this industry for 20 years. I've watched this exact pattern play out dozens of times. The guard gets blamed. The process that selected them never gets examined. That's not a people problem. That's a procurement problem. I broke it all down in the first issue of The Briefing. Four things I've learned in two decades that nobody told me at the start. If you're responsible for selecting security vendors at your organization, this one's for you.