YouTube Weighing Infrastructural Changes To San Bruno Campus After April Shooting

Managers at the YouTube headquarters in San Bruno, Calif., have reached out to city officials to investigate bolstering on-site security infrastructure after the April shooting that wounded three employees, according to a report from Business Insider.

David Woltering, San Bruno’s community development director, revealed the security concerns alongside YouTube’s plans to develop the area around its headquarters. In the expansion, YouTube will add more office space and parking facilities, and will hire thousands more staff members, per Business Insider.

Whether the company plans to add new security measures during the expansion or prior to it has not been made clear, but Woltering did note that upgraded security measures in consideration include “fencing, increased surveillance, and improved access controls.”

April shooter Nasim Aghdam reportedly targeted YouTube because some of her videos and channels had been demonetized and removed for policy violations, and she believed YouTube was also shortchanging her ad earnings. Aghdam killed herself after the shooting, which resulted in no other deaths.

Woltering told Business Insider that the San Bruno campus upped security immediately after Aghdam’s attack, bringing in more security staff — but changes to the campus’s infrastructure will be new. Considering numerous YouTube employees have reported receiving death threats from angry YouTube content creators, it’s no surprise YouTube is looking into more permanent additions.