Alamo Heights ISD is the latest district in Texas to adopt new technology for safety and security in the wake of mass shootings.
Credit:Every teacher in the Alamo Heights Independent School District will soon be wearing a small badge with an embedded panic button, the latest upgrade in security technology and something that could soon be required in all Texas schools in response to mass shootings.
Frank Stanage, the director of human resources and the district emergency management coordinator, said the new technology provided by a company called Centegix will simplify the process. In addition to initiating a lockdown, the button will trigger a system of strobe lights, an announcement over the intercom and a “work station takeover” that pops up emergency procedures on all work stations campus-wide, according to Centegix Regional Vice President Carly Smith.
Whoops! There was an error and we couldn't process your subscription. Please reload the page and try again.Vulnerabilities in previous panic buttons and applications are why Centegix founder Daniel Dooley developed the wearable device shortly after the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School shooting in Parkland, Florida, in 2018, which left 17 people dead.
“In other products … it gave you a general idea of where the event was happening, but you didn’t know exactly where,” he said. Stanage, the Alamo Heights ISD official, said the district had considered the risk of students getting a hold of the badges — and already has policies in place that train teachers to protect against such an act.
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