Overview
- Mayor Eric Adams unveiled the Emergency Alert System at Brooklyn’s Spring Creek Community School, the first campus equipped under the pilot.
- The test will expand during the 2025–26 school year to 51 schools housed in 25 buildings across all five boroughs.
- Staff can activate alerts through fixed wall buttons or wireless lanyards, triggering a hard lockdown with audible and visual signals inside the building.
- Real-time dashboards and electronic notifications will give NYPD School Safety and NYC Public Schools officials location-specific information during an incident.
- The system was developed by the NYC Office of Technology and Innovation with SOS Technologies following a separate 2023 panic-button pilot tied to an FBI inquiry; officials cited K-12 School Shooting Database figures showing 351 incidents in 2023 and 336 in 2024.