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Trustees discuss panic-button reliability and legal exposure; director to review procedures with police and alarm vendor
Summary
Trustees and the library director discussed the library’s personal panic-button system, response protocols, accidental activations and whether trustees or the director control staff safety procedures; director Noel will consult the alarm vendor and the town attorney for liability clarification.
Trustees spent a substantial portion of the meeting reviewing the library’s panic-button system, how activations are routed, accidental activations and whether the board should adopt policy or leave procedures to the director’s management authority.
Noel explained how the system currently works and that staff now receive individual panic buttons and badges. She described the vendor workflow: when a button activates it produces a caller notification from the police department to the library’s front desk rather than an immediate police dispatch, a sequence she and trustees said can introduce a delay. Noel said…
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