VIDEO: New York City Mayor Eric Adams and New York City Chief Technology Officer Matthew Fraser announced the nationโs first pilot directly integrating public schools with 911 services for life-saving rapid response in case of an active shooter situation.
The new Emergency Alert System (EAS) created by the New York City Office of Technology and Innovation (OTI) debuted at the Spring Creek campus in Brooklyn โ the first school building in the United States to have direct 911 integration โ and is scheduled to be rolled out to a total of 25 school buildings, representing 51 public schools across the five boroughs during the 2025-2026 school year.
EAS provides an immediate, secure, and automated pathway for public schools to directly alert 911 of a critical emergency associated with a hard lockdown involving a weapon-based threat or active shooter situation.
โPublic safety is the prerequisite to prosperity and the key to delivering for working-class families, because our students deserve to feel safe in school, our parents must know their children are in a secure environment, and our teachers should have the confidence to focus on shaping young minds,โ said Mayor Adams.
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