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Graham County accepts $280,000 in state funds to continue school safety system; board signs agreement
Summary
The Graham County Board of Supervisors voted to accept $280,000 in state funding to continue a school safety interoperability system that links school "panic buttons" to local law enforcement and dispatch. The county will sign a state agreement now; a vendor contract (Mutualink) with per-agency pricing will follow.
Graham County voted unanimously to accept $280,000 in state funds to continue a school safety interoperability system that links school "panic buttons," cameras and local law enforcement.
County Manager Welker told the board the system — funded originally by a state legislative appropriation and now in operation across nearly every public school in Graham County — connects school devices and cameras to dispatch and to phones carried by law-enforcement leadership. "What this system does is it provides what's called a panic…
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