MOBILE, Ala. (WALA) -The Cell County Public Faculty System has a number of safety measures in place for its colleges. Again in 2021, the college system launched the disaster alert system to its excessive colleges. Director of Security and Safety Andy Gatewood says it may be used to inform employees of a medical emergency, a battle or if the college wants to enter lockdown.
“Each worker in every college is issued a badge that they put on round their neck on a lanyard, and so they can successfully get help from the responder crew which is mostly the administrator and useful resource officer,” stated Andy Gatewood.
As soon as activated, the alert system takes over all computer systems and smartboards in a faculty and flashes coloration coded lights relying on the kind of emergency. Like crimson for a full lockdown or inexperienced as soon as all clear.
“It really exhibits the place the individual is situated once they press the alert so the directors, useful resource officers whoever can rapidly reply to that location,” stated Gatewood.
The college system added the disaster alert system to their center and K8 colleges over the past college yr. Now they’re set so as to add it to all 54 elementary colleges.
“They’ll have emergencies simply as anybody else, so we discover it’s crucial to present them that very same functionality and empower them with that very same know-how,” added Gatewood.
Quickly they’ll additionally improve the digital camera methods at some colleges like B.C. Rain and Murphy. As an alternative of the analog cameras they’ve now, they’ll quickly have newer IP cameras like the remainder of the colleges. The cameras might be a part of the brand new video administration system.
“The administrator will be capable of entry the cameras for his or her college and again right here at central workplace myself and the opposite useful resource officers will be capable of entry the cameras throughout the college system,” stated Gatewood.
Gatewood says they’ll additionally improve the cameras by the doorways. They have already got a Raptor system that may do a background test on anybody who indicators in and exhibits their driver’s license. They’re including facial recognition cameras as properly.
“If we’ve an individual that we all know is a hazard or shouldn’t be on campus we will really scan a digital {photograph} of that individual into the system and we will stop them from coming in,” stated Gatewood.
The college system continues to be researching the opportunity of arming useful resource officers, however no resolution has been made but. In the meantime, Gatewood says they hope to start out upgrading the cameras within the spring with a aim of getting most of them completed by subsequent college yr.
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