CLINTON, Tenn. (WATE) — The Anderson County school system has put new preventative measures in place to combat the threat of gun violence at schools, including the implementation of the Rave Panic Button Emergency App to streamline how calls for any emergency get made.
“Next semester, we are beginning the implementation of, right now as we speak, is what’s called the Rave app,” said Anderson County Schools Director of Communications Ryan Sutton. “It’s an app that is user-based on our teachers that will go on their cell phones, because no one goes anywhere without their cell phones any more, as well as its geofenced. If I and a school employee are at one of our schools, I have five choices of alerts that I can give from my phone.”
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Those alerts or alarm types include; an intruder alert that alerts authorities when the issue is in the school, which phone it came from, and where that phone is at the time the alert was triggered. Teachers and staff can also call for a medical alert, fire, other police necessity and an other option that could vary by grade level. The app does something more than what the safety lanyards do at some schools.