Brockton High School in Brockton, Mass., has installed a gunshot detection system. The system is designed to give administrators and law enforcement a nearly-instant notification of the gunshot and its location.
- By Jessica Davis
- June 26, 2019
Tulane University will begin using Everbridge as its emergency alert system June 28.
- By Jessica Davis
- June 24, 2019
Traverse City Area Public Schools (TCAPS) plan to install a new lockdown lighting system, which will include lights on the exterior of the buildings that flash during a lockdown to indicate that people outside should not enter the building.
- By Jessica Davis
- June 14, 2019
Everyday nearly 75 million students attend school and rely on administrators to keep them safe. Unfortunately, too many tragic school shootings have shown educators and parents that what is currently in place is simply too little, too late.
- By John Carter
- June 01, 2019
Utah State University’s public safety department is making improvements to its Code Blue emergency notification system.
- By Jessica Davis
- May 28, 2019
A new crisis notification technology is being implemented in a pilot program at Roan School in Dalton, Ga.
- By Jessica Davis
- May 20, 2019
Strapped with an antiquated emergency notification system, California State University San Marcos needed a system that could expand functionality and easily integrate with its existing process for sending out text, email, and phone alerts.
The School District of the Chathams will be implementing silent panic alarms in all schools by September, as mandated by New Jersey State law.
- By Jessica Davis
- May 03, 2019
IN FORCE911 is a desktop and mobile app that allows faculty and staff at schools to launch an emergency alert in as few as 12 seconds. The alert is sent directly to dispatch, police and even officer cellphones, giving critical information about the crisis event, including the location on campus from which the alert originated.
- By Jessica Davis
- December 18, 2018
Planning for everything that could possibly go wrong is second nature for members of the University of Calgary’s Risk portfolio, who are constantly tracking the worst-case scenario and developing strategies to prevent it.
- By Rebekah Jarvis
- December 01, 2018