Carrollton City Schools launches new safety app for emergencies
Carrollton City School's new safety tech
Keeping your children safe. That's the goal behind new technology just introduced to one school district.
CARROLLTON, Ga. - Carrollton City Schools is implementing a new mobile safety app.
It is an effort to keep children safe in case of the worst possible scenario.
What is LifeSpot?
What we know:
The emergency mobile app alert system is called LifeSpot.
The cellphone app connects school personnel to all emergency agencies simultaneously.
The app presents a map to emergency personnel and enables the person in danger to be tracked by first responders.
Information can be silently typed into the app to allow for communication. For example, someone being tracked by the app can note they are barricaded in a room and the shooter is outside the door.
This will then generate a circle on a map.
How does LifeSpot work?
What they're saying:
School officials say it will help track everyone in the event of an emergency.
"Police, fire, EMS and its immediate contact with the other users of this app," explained Assistant Superintendent of Facilities and Operations, Craig George. "Everybody on campus gets it when the button is pressed."
"Giving a general idea of the person's location," George added.
Apalachee High School shooting caused district to reevaluate security
Dig deeper:
In addition to LifeSpot, the district has established more safety measures. It mandates that classroom doors be locked, that people must be buzzed in at all front entrances to allow for screenings, and that it now has five School Resource Officers.
The school district does not have metal detectors. "Always a discussion, but we've done other things. We now have five SROs," says George.
The idea to add a school alert system came up before last fall's Appalachee High School shooting. Four people died in the incident.
The Source: FOX 5's Kevyn Stewart spoke with Carrollton City Schools Assistant Superintendent of Facilities and Operations Craig George and used details as well as video provided by LifeSpot for this story.