Ms. Mosier, the district’s director of safety and security, told the Brighton Central School District Board of Education on Aug. 20 that the district updated its districtwide safety plan with an emphasis this year on response and recovery.

The plan, Mosier said, refines early prevention practices and clarifies incident-command roles, adds building-level cardiac emergency response teams, expands visitor management and implements a new Tap app for real-time staff and student accountability. "Our focus this year was really on response and recovery," Mosier said.

Project SAVE and state requirements frame the plan, Mosier said. Key changes described at the hearing include: creation of voluntary, AED-trained cardiac response teams in each building with maps showing AED locations; a visitor-management kiosk at secure entries to screen visitors before they enter buildings; and full implementation of the Tap app to push real-time alerts, enable staff check-ins, and collect attendance information during incidents.

Mosier said the Tap app will let staff mark last-known locations and report missing students in real time. She said the district aims to have the app’s core communication and attendance features active at the start of the school year and to finish technical integration with the district’s blue-light/audio systems by October. "The important aspects of the Tap app . . . will be up and running this school year," Mosier said; she described the vendor integration as a secondary step that will follow.

The district also described a summer training the presenters identified as the "I Love You Guys" program that brought together school staff, maintenance, food service, nurses, mental-health staff and local first responders to practice incident command, communication and reunification. Mosier said the district practiced reunification exercises and is working to build districtwide capacity so response teams from nearby schools or district buildings can assist when needed.

The presentation also covered workplace-violence training added to state requirements last year, reporting tools for incidents (including anonymous reporting), and updated state emergency-response symbols; Brighton will use the new language "secure/secure lockout" consistent with state guidance.

No members of the public spoke during the hearing. Board members said they appreciated the training and the cross-stakeholder coordination described by Mosier.

The district held the required public hearing as part of the statutory adoption process; Mosier said the board will consider adopting the districtwide safety plan at the board's second September meeting to meet the state's 30-day notice requirement. That adoption is a formal, separate action and had not occurred at the Aug. 20 meeting.

Implementation remains partly contingent on vendor integration and the district’s work to enroll external responders in the Tap app; Mosier identified October as a target for completing the integration with the blue-light/audio system and said the Tap app's core alert and attendance features would be available at the start of the school year.