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District rolls out crisis-alert badges, updates safety reporting and proposes policy changes
Summary
Pinellas County Schools reported districtwide rollout of crisis-alert badges for 13,000+ employees, completion of Office of Safe Schools site-visit remediations, and first readings of policy amendments aligned with recent state laws; the board approved the annual safety report and advanced policy amendments to a second reading in December.
Pinellas County Schools presented its annual safety and security report on Oct. 14 and advanced a set of policy amendments linked to recent state legislation.
Sean Joel, the district’s director of safety and security, described the implementation of a district strategic crisis-alert badge program that the district said was deployed before the start of the school year to more than 13,000 employees across 132 sites. Joel described the badge as a technological addition that provides staff the ability to alert responders and initiate law-enforcement notification during critical incidents. "We were successfully able to…
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