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Mount Vernon board hears plan to improve campus communications, license-plate readers and visitor management
Summary
District staff told the board they will form a working group and implement a push-to-talk app (TangoTango) for campus communications, continue use of Flock license-plate readers and consider Raptor visitor-management and camera-based weapons detection. Superintendent/staff also said the district’s emergency plan now states staff do not carry guns.
District staff described a set of changes and purchases intended to improve communication and situational awareness across school campuses.
The presentation said a working group made up of school leadership, first responders and partner institutions on campus—such as the career center and MBNU—will use TangoTango, a push-to-talk phone app used by first responders, to allow faster cross-campus communication.
"Since it's already here in the county, we need to use it for free," the presenter said, describing plans to create leadership and principal…
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