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Case Studies
Supporting the Unique Safety Needs of Special Education
Meade County School District leads the way in Kentucky with their innovative, proactive approach to safety, especially when it comes to supporting the unique safety needs of their special education students and staff. Learn about their approach in our case study.
North Branch Area Schools Improve Emergency Communications with CENTEGIX CrisisAlert™
Learn why North Branch Area Schools in Michigan chose CENTEGIX CrisisAlert to close communication gaps in their safety plan in our case study.
Life-Saving Stories
When you minimize identification, notification, and response time in medical emergencies, you save lives. Discover nine life-saving stories where rapid response made the difference. Access the case study today.
Little Rock School District
Moving from a phone app to a wearable panic button helped Little Rock School District triple staff adoption of their emergency response solution. Learn more in our case study.
Yakima School District: An Impressive Approach to Safety
Take a look at how the CENTEGIX Safety Platform changed the way the Yakima School District approaches safety. Download your copy of the case study today.
EBooks
School Safety Planning: A Law Enforcement Perspective
Retired Police Chief Jeri Williams shares what elements combine to create an effective school safety plan that accelerates emergency response at any scale in our eBook School Safety Planning: A Law Enforcement Perspective.
The Forefront of Healthcare: The Trends, Challenges, and Focal Points for Healthcare in 2024
With violence against healthcare workers rising at an alarming rate, enhancing patient and staff safety is a top priority in 2024. This e-book explores the trends linking safety, staffing, and patient care. Download your copy today.
Visitor Management: Best Practices for Your School Safety Plan
CENTEGIX empowers thousands of schools to take control of their visitor management and protect their teachers, students, and staff. Using our Visitor Management Best Practices Guide, see if your school needs a better visitor management system to augment your school safety plan and the steps to take to make it happen.
Effects of Safety and Security on Student Outcomes eBook
Every student has the right to learn and a right to feel safe. That’s why we’ve created an ebook to examine the effects of safety and security on student outcomes.
White Papers
Alyssa’s Law: Texas Deployment
To assist Texas districts in complying with new security requirements, we’ve compiled data from across the state into a report on school safety in Texas. Get valuable insight into the most frequent incident alert locations, the different types of emergencies reported on campuses, adoption rates among staff, and more. Download the report today.
2024 School Safety Trends Report: Saving Seconds Saves Lives
This report offers our latest, comprehensive analysis of school safety incidents gathered from the CENTEGIX Safety Platform™ usage data for the 2023-2024 school year. Get your copy today.
Key Trends in School Safety
Schools are the training grounds for every community’s future leaders, so protecting schools is an investment in your community’s future. See what our safety report reveals regarding safety in the classroom, state safety legislation, and critical components of school safety solutions in our infographic.
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What is Alyssa’s Law?
Alyssa’s Law requires public elementary and secondary schools to be equipped with “silent panic alarms directly linked to law enforcement.” The law is named in honor of Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School shooting victim Alyssa Alhadeff.
The purpose of Alyssa’s Law is to decrease the time it takes for first responders to arrive at an emergency situation—whether it’s a shooting, a natural disaster, or any other unforeseen event. The legislation requires schools to make it possible for staff to request immediate assistance, no matter the nature of the emergency.
Alyssa’s Law has passed in several states: New Jersey in February 2019, Florida in July 2020, New York in June 2022, and Texas and Tennessee in May 2023. Lawmakers in Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Nebraska, Oregon, and Virginia have introduced Alyssa’s Law for consideration. Alyssa’s Law has also been introduced on the federal level.
CrisisAlert technology is designed to improve communication with first responders, empower staff members to request assistance, and make everyone on campus aware when a building has been put into lockdown. The CENTEGIX CrisisAlert safety solution fulfills the purpose of Alyssa’s law: to decrease emergency response times, saving lives and creating a culture of safety in schools.
Silent Panic Alert Technology (SPAT)?
How Do You Evaluate Silent Panic Alert Technology (SPAT)?
To be effective, Silent Panic Alert Technology (SPAT) must have 100% user adoption, be simple and easy to use, and be specific on incident location. To evaluate if a solution will be the right fit for your district, ask these four questions:
- Will staff adopt and use the technology?
Staff Adoption is Critical, and Mobile Apps Have Low Adoption. Following the Parkland Florida school tragedy, two months after an emergency response phone app was made available for educators to download, only 16% of one Florida school district staff had it installed on their mobile phones. A Marjory Stoneman Douglas teacher stated, “My cellphone is my private property. But putting [the application] on my phone means now my phone is part of my work property. And having that responsibility to have your phone on you all the time can be problematic.”
When every staff member is equipped with the CrisisAlert badge, you eliminate the need for educators to download an emergency response app to their personal device and achieve 100% user adoption.
- Does it rely on wi-fi or cellular to communicate?
Wi-fi and Cell Service in Schools can Be Spotty, Leaving Mobile Apps Vulnerable. In an emergency, every second matters. Mobile app-based emergency response solutions that rely on wi-fi or a cellular signal to alert first responders can cost valuable seconds in response time when a reliable signal can’t be found.
With a CrisisAlert badge, a staff member can initiate an alert anywhere on campus without worrying about whether they’re connected to the school’s wi-fi or if they have a strong cell signal. With the push of a button, first responders are instantly alerted.
- Does it provide precise incident location to first responders?
Precise Location Information Impacts Response Time, and Mobile Apps Fall Short. Knowing precisely where to go during a crisis is a crucial piece of information for first responders and can determine whether a life gets saved or not. Mobile apps simply can’t guarantee accurate room- and floor-level incident information during a crisis.
When an emergency happens and an alert is triggered with the CrisisAlert badge, first responders instantly receive precise location information of the incident, down to the precise floor level and room number. This allows those in distress to get the help they need as soon as possible.
- Will it notify everyone on campus?
Campus-Wide Notifications Protect Everyone, and Mobile Apps Lack the Functionality. When there’s an emergency, campus-wide notification of the event is paramount to ensuring everyone can take the necessary steps to get to safety. Mobile apps lack the functionality to be able to alert an entire campus of an emergency, such as a lockdown, with visual and audio cues.
CrisisAlert uses visual strobes, digital messages, and automated intercom announcements to inform everyone of a campus-wide incident and the actions to take.
