Keeping Tennessee Schools Safe

Prevent, prepare, respond and recover from any emergency

Alyssa’s Law

Alyssa’s Law, as part of House Bill (HB) 322, requires district-wide and building-level school safety teams to consider including a mobile panic alert system in their respective safety plans. These systems must:

Be capable of connecting diverse emergency services technologies to ensure real-time coordination between multiple first responder agencies.
Integrate with local public safety answering point infrastructure to transmit 911 calls and mobile activations.

See how Raptor Alerting solutions support Alyssa’s Law compliance in Tennessee Schools.

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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.

What Our Customers Say

“The way to keep your schools or anywhere safe is adding those extra layers of security that it takes to put between people that don’t need to be there, and the school community, and Raptor is a system that we use that provides another layer of safety and security for us.”

“It was an individual that was coming to campus for the first time, who was going to do some contract work and with new visitors, he was screened in and there was a flag. He never had an opportunity to work in our schools and he was immediately escorted out of the building.”

For a decade since my involvement with Raptor, I have experienced continual support from the Sales, Customer Success, and especially the Technical Support teams. The Raptor teams were invaluable at each step along our implementation and enhancement journey. Their national growth, in my perspective, is directly tied to their customer-centric focus.

Tennessee School Safety Mandates

In addition to requiring schools to consider implementing mobile panic alert systems, HB 322 also requires:

Every school district to establish threat assessment teams.
Every public and private school to develop annual safety plans, including an incident command drill for school leaders and law enforcement.
Private security guards to receive active shooter training prior to being posted at schools.

Raptor supports Tennessee schools in complying with these mandates with:

Raptor StudentSafe™ to support your district’s threat assessment teams in capturing low-level concerns, streamlining behavioral treat and suicide risk assessments, and managing cases of bullying, sexual harassment, and other wellbeing concerns.
Raptor Drill Manager to automate scheduling, conducting, and reporting on mandated drills.
Age-appropriate active shooter training via the Safe Kids H.E.R.O Program, FREE with the purchase of any Raptor software.

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Available Funding

The state of Tennessee has allocated funds for implementing school safety enhancements. The following programs align with Raptor solutions:

School Safety Grant Fund
Public and Nonpublic School Security Grants
Stronger Connections Grant

$20M FY25-26 Tennessee School Safety Grant Fund

$20 million has been secured for the Tennessee School Safety Grant Fund through the passage of the $59.5 billion FY-25-26 budget on April 22, 2025. Application details are expected to be released soon. Learn More.

$54M Public and Nonpublic School Security Grants

A total of $54 million in one-time, non-recurring funds was allocated to Tennessee school districts via the FY24 Public and Non-Public School Security Grants for enhancing student safety. The budget period deadlines for both grants were recently extended to June 30, 2025, to ensure that awardees have enough time to spend their awarded funds.

Allowable expenses include:

Stronger Connections Grant Program

Stronger Connections Grant Program End Date: September 30, 2026

Provides $18.8 million for safer and healthier learning environments in Tennessee.

Allowable expenses include:

Establishing a multi-tiered system of supports framework,
Violence prevention and intervention programs and activities,
Developing early detection, screening, or warning systems to identify at risk students,
and more.

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