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Danvers schools roll out InformaCast emergency alert system to speed building notifications
Summary
District technology staff described a year‑long effort to implement InformaCast, a mass notification system that sends synchronized intercom, phone, text and app alerts to staff and can be scoped school‑by‑school or district‑wide; parents’ notification protocol will be addressed in a later phase.
Danvers Public Schools presented a new mass notification system intended to speed emergency communications to staff and emergency services across school buildings.
Jim Sullivan, the district’s director of technology, said the InformaCast system was developed during a year of work with the district safety committee and integrates with phones, intercoms, staff email and a mobile app so authorized users can “launch an alert to notify the school community where the issue is, as well as emergency services” within seconds.
Sullivan described the…
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