Meet Alyssa’s Law Requirements with Confidence

Common Current Emergency Practices

Teachers, staff, and students routinely practice how to barricade themselves in classrooms, hide, so it looks like no one is in the room, and shelter in place until the threat has been resolved.

Most classrooms have instructions for all emergency drills that are to be on a clipboard or in a folder and located near the classroom exit. Accompanying the emergency information are two placards: one red and one green. For fire drills, these placards are held in the air to indicate all students are present and accounted for (green) or a student is missing (red).

During lockdown drills, these placards are slid underneath the door or affixed in the door window to alert administration or emergency responders. Teachers and students are well trained on what to do in intruder situations.

Still, an essential piece of the safety plan is missing. Who is responsible for alerting an outside agency of an intruder, and how can the agency be alerted quickly/silently? That’s where platforms that are Alyssa’s Law compliant come in to address this gap in school safety.