The Oregon-Davis School Corporation is the first to go online with the Centegix Crisis Alert System.
The Oregon-Davis School Board members were recently updated on the new system by Superintendent William Bennett. The Centegix Crisis Alert badge offers full campus coverage, location accuracy, an audio and visual alert system and immediate notifications.
Every staff member will be assigned a badge and training is now under way. The different types of emergencies are color coded and have different button sequences to press for each emergency. Alert lights in the school will then begin to flash the color of the corresponding emergency, as well as the sounding of an audio alarm.
After the alert has been activated, messages will be sent to the cell phones and lap tops of medical or security personnel. This should help to significantly cut back on response times.
Costs for the system were around $12,000 a year with the first year being covered by the school. Next year it should fall under School Safety Grant funds.
