After a school shooting in Georgia, an Ohio lawmaker wants school staff to wear panic alert devices like those used to alert law enforcement to Apalachee High School.
Sen. Michele Reynolds, R-Canal Winchester, introduced a bill to require public and charter school staff to wear panic alert devices beginning next school year.
The panic alert system must be integrated with local law enforcement technology to transmit 911 calls and lock down the school.
The bill would require school districts to train staff on how to use the devices properly.
Some Ohio school districts are already implementing wearable panic alerts, such as Worthington City Schools and New Albany-Plain Local Schools in central Ohio.
The bill would be called Alyssa’s law. Jayden Turner lost her cousin Alyssa Alhadeff in the 2018 Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School mass shooting in Parkland, Florida. Turner has advocated for state legislation to require panic alert systems, according to the Rockland/Westchester Journal News.
Erin Glynn is a reporter for the USA TODAY Network Ohio Bureau, which serves the Columbus Dispatch, Cincinnati Enquirer, Akron Beacon Journal and 18 other affiliated news organizations across Ohio.
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Publish date : 2024-09-15 12:53:00
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