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Hickman County Schools present mobile safety app to speed alerts, accountability and reunification
Summary
District safety coordinator outlined a proposal for a new mobile app to manage drills, send incident alerts to 911, integrate with the student information system for accountability, and speed family reunification. The proposal was presented for board consideration; no purchase vote is recorded in the transcript.
Hickman County Schools’ safety coordinator presented a planned districtwide mobile app that would let staff trigger incident alerts, manage and record drills centrally and speed reunification after an emergency.
The coordinator told the board the app would allow staff to push a preconfigured alert (for example, active intruder or fire) from a phone or a computer; the alert “automatically goes to 911,” and the app would link to Skyward to speed accountability of students, staff and visitors. The coordinator said the app includes a reunification feature that lets staff check parents’ identification at pickup and notify other caregivers on the child’s authorized pickup list.
District staff framed the tool as a compliance and operational upgrade. They said the app would help the district comply with Alyssa’s Law requirements and replace the district’s paper-and-pencil accounting used during drills and emergencies, which district staff said can take hours.
The presentation noted options for staff use (install on phones or use desktop computers) and named network work the district would need to complete to support the system. The transcript does not record a formal motion to purchase the app or a final contract approval at this meeting.
Supporters on the board thanked the coordinator for the presentation and noted the app’s potential to speed communication in weather or evacuation events. The coordinator said some technical and privacy details would be kept confidential for safety reasons, and that network work would be needed before districtwide deployment.
