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District to deploy Raptor safety suite next school year using state 31AA funds
Summary
Superintendent and safety team told the board the district selected Raptor after vetting vendors; the package includes wearable panic badges for staff, visitor screening tied to offender registries, and an early‑intervention student‑safety module; implementation will start with stakeholder protocol development and staff training before the fall semester.
Superintendent Coffin told trustees the district’s safety team — which included union and IT representatives and local law enforcement — vetted vendors and chose the Raptor safety suite to address gaps in the district’s emergency communication and visitor‑management systems.
The district said state 31AA funds make the initial purchase possible. The planned components are: wearable staff badges with a panic button that will notify an internal response team and can escalate to a building lockdown and police call; a visitor‑management tool that scans IDs against a national offender registry and local no‑trespass lists and can produce photo badges; and Raptor Student Safe, a centralized module to track behavior patterns and sensitive threat or suicide assessment details for early intervention.
District staff said kickoff meetings have been held, stakeholder engagement continues through spring and summer, and full implementation is expected in fall with staff training and badge distribution before schools reopen. Board members asked about response‑time improvements, whether all substitute staff will have badges, and privacy and data‑security safeguards; staff said the system is intended to shorten response times, include substitutes, and that protocols and legal review will guide data handling.
The board took no separate vote to accept the system in the presentation segment; later in the meeting the board approved related security camera hardware and installation contracts as part of broader facilities and safety procurement.
What’s next: staff will finalize internal protocols, legal review and training materials over the summer and report implementation details to the board ahead of the fall roll‑out.
