RICHMOND, Va. (WWBT) – A new Virginia law allows school boards to provide employees with wearable panic alarms that can alert 911 and, when appropriate, trigger a schoolwide emergency notification.
With students across Central Virginia back in school, local leaders are not rushing to buy the devices.
The law is known as Alyssa’s Law, named for 14-year-old Alyssa Alhadeff, one of 17 people killed in the 2018 Parkland school shooting…