Keeping Florida Schools Safe
Prevent, prepare, respond and recover from any emergency
Alyssa’s Law
Alyssa’s Law requires all Florida public schools, including charter schools, to implement a mobile panic alert system, known as “Alyssa’s Alert”. The law requires these systems:
- Be capable of connecting diverse emergency services technologies to ensure real-time coordination between multiple first responder agencies.
- To integrate with local public safety answering point infrastructure to transmit 911 calls and mobile activations.
- To include mobile devices placed throughout each school facility.
- Districts should also consider using a combination of fixed buttons, mobile and desktop apps, landline phones, and wearable devices like lanyards, to ensure all staff are able to silently and easily activate an alert during an emergency.
To support compliance, the Florida Legislature provides $6.4 million in recurring state funding to cover the costs of implementing solutions from Florida Department of Education (FDOE)-approved vendors. As an FDOE-approved vendor for Alyssa’s Alert compliance, Raptor offers solutions that help schools meet and exceed these critical safety requirements. Fill out the form on the right to learn more.
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Raptor Alerting Solutions
Raptor provides multiple alerting methods to enable staff to silently and more easily expedite the call for help during emergencies, ensuring compliance with Alyssa’s Law. Designed to work under duress, Raptor Alert and Raptor Badge Alert provide a silent panic alert system for school staff. The system:
- Integrates with existing digital security systems, maps, and peripherals through the Raptor Connect bi-directional integration platform, streamlining a school’s digital emergency response activations, speeding notifications, and minimizing the impact of the situation.
- Is compatible with all standard Public Safety Answering Points and emergency calling infrastructure, and is RapidSOS Ready, accelerating the transfer of critical emergency alert data to 911 and with first responders during emergencies.
- Enables users to initiate an alert via a wearable badge, the Raptor Alert mobile panic app, or any web-enabled device including cellular, WiFi, and hard-wired connections throughout the campus.
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Family Reunification Plans
Family Reunification plans, as set forth in 6A-1.0018 School Safety Requirements and Monitoring rule, require district school boards to adopt a family reunification plan to reunite students with their families in the event that a school is closed or unexpectedly evacuated due to a natural or manmade disaster. At a minimum, district reunification plans must address:
- Identification of potential reunification sites.
- Training for employees.
- Multiple methods to effectively communicate with family members of students and staff.
- Methods to aid law enforcement in student and staff identification.
Connected to your student information system, Raptor Reunification helps reunify students with approved guardians up to 4x faster than paper and pencil methods and is HB 1421 compliant.
- Enables scanning of the guardian’s ID to check for status or custodial restrictions.
- Records and stores approved guardian signature.
- Automatically sends alerts to the student’s other guardians upon successful reunification.
- Updates dashboards in real-time and automatically creates summary reports.
- Patented workflow is fully aligned to the Standard Reunification Method from The “I Love U Guys” Foundation.
Raptor offers robust training options, including The Raptor Reunification Exercise through our Compliance and Success Program, designed to remove stress and leave your team feeling confident in their abilities to execute this critical function in an actual emergency.
We also partner with The “I Love U Guys” Foundation to deliver a Together Reunification Exercise, T-Rex.
Building Resilient Schools with Trauma-Informed Safety Drills
Traditional emergency drills are essential, but can cause stress if not carefully designed. Using age-appropriate, ability-aware, and trauma-informed approaches helps schools protect both physical safety and psychological well-being.
School Safety Drills
Florida law requires schools to conduct six emergency drills:
- One within the first ten days of school.
- The remaining drills must take place at least every forty five days that school is in session.
- Four out of six must be active threat drills.
- The remaining two can be severe weather, natural disasters, hazardous materials, or reunification.
Raptor Drill Manager enables Florida schools to meet the latest school safety drill requirements, including the ones outlined in House Bill 1473 by:
- Allowing users to efficiently schedule, conduct, and track drills.
- Providing users access to both district-level and school-level reports that can easily be customized and scheduled for analytical and investigative purposes.
- Providing users access to key metrics, like who was accounted for and when, via dashboards that are updated in real-time.
Stronger Connections Grant Program
Stronger Connections Grant Program End Date: September 30, 2026
40 LEAs were allocated over $51 million via the Stronger Connections Grant through the Bipartisan Safer Communities Act (BSCA) for safer learning environments in school districts throughout the state.
Allowable expenses include:
- the implementation of schoolwide positive behavioral interventions and supports.
- high-quality training for school personnel, related to suicide prevention, crisis management, and conflict resolution techniques.
- school-based violence prevention strategies.
- and more.
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Wearable Panic Buttons & Meeting Statewide Panic Alert Requirements
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Highlands County Schools Learned the Efficiency of Raptor Reunification
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