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Chesapeake staff brief council on Safety Connect employee SOS app
Summary
City staff demonstrated Safety Connect, an Everbridge-based SOS app that will be pushed to city-issued phones and offered to personal devices; features include GPS, two minutes of live audio/video, and an incident chat for rapid responder awareness.
Chesapeake city staff demonstrated Safety Connect to the City Council, describing a new employee-focused emergency app that will be pushed to city-issued phones and offered to personal devices.
Deputy City Manager Bob Geist opened the briefing and turned the presentation over to Bobby Gellamine, the city’s security program manager, who described the app as an Everbridge implementation for staff use. "The employee would hit the SOS button to activate the process in which notifications would go out,"…
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