NYC Schools Will Be First In Nation To Have Direct 911 Access In Active Shooter Threats

SOS Technologies Partners with New York City to Deploy Historic "Direct-to-First Responder" Emergency Alert System for NYC Public Schools - reducing first responder notification times from minutes to under 10 seconds

Link to New York City Mayor Eric Adams press conference at the Spring Creek school campus in Brooklyn.

NYC Schools Will Be First In Nation To Have Direct 911 Access In Active Shooter Threats

Mayor Eric Adams made the announcement at the Spring Creek campus in Brooklyn.

NYC schools launch groundbreaking emergency alert system for active shooter situations

Every morning, parents across New York (and the country) watch their children head off to school with the same hope that they’ll be safe, learn well, and come home smiling. But in a time when school shootings have become heartbreakingly familiar, it gets increasingly more difficult. To strengthen safety at school, New York City has taken a groundbreaking step by launching the nation’s first Emergency Alert System that links schools directly to 91

NYC schools first in nation to get direct 911 access for active shooter events

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — In a national first, New York City Mayor Eric Adams announced that 51 public schools will be in direct contact with 911 in the event of an active shooter via a new Emergency Alert System.

NYC launches pilot for automated 911 alert system across city's public schools

Mayor Eric Adams' office claims a new system makes the New York City schools in first the United States to have direct 911 integration.

Dozens of city schools to get direct 911 link for emergencies

Mayor Eric Adams announced the initiative Monday at Spring Creek Community School in Brooklyn, the first school campus to install the system.