INVEST IN PROVEN, COST-EFFECTIVE SAFETY SOLUTIONS THAT PROTECT OUR CLASSROOMS

A South Carolina bill – patterned after Alyssa’s Law in honor of Alyssa Alhadeff, who died in a Florida high school shooting in 2018 – may soon mandate mobile panic alert systems throughout the state’s public schools.
“I texted Alyssa. I told her to run and hide, that help was on the way,” said Alyssa’s mom, Lori, in a March 18 Senate subcommittee meeting as reported by Hearst’s WYFF Greenville.
“But on that day, help did not come quickly enough. She wasn’t alerted fast enough, and students didn’t go into their safety protocols quickly enough. Alyssa and 17 others died that day. That is why the principle of this bill is so simple. Time equals life.”
After Lori’s testimony, House Bill 3258 “passed the Senate’s education subcommittee with ease,” according to the news station.
“If passed as is, it would allow each teacher to alert the school in case of an emergency and call for help with just the push of a button.”