(Georgia Recorder) — Last September, the Barrow County Sheriff’s Office was bombarded with alerts of a shooting at Apalachee High School in Winder.
The school had issued panic buttons to its teachers a week earlier, which allowed them to alert officers within minutes after a 14-year-old gunman first opened fire.
“(The panic button) was extremely helpful in what we did that day of the incident,” Sheriff Jud Smith said in an interview. “I think there were over 20 alerts from people in that general area that was able to help us (get to) where we needed to go.”…