CENTEGIX | Education
Utah School Safety Standards
CENTEGIX | Education
Utah School Safety Standards
CENTEGIX | Playbook
Utah’s Alyssa’s Law Playbook: The What, Why, and How for Utah Schools
In March 2024, Utah passed Alyssa’s Law, requiring Utah public and charter schools to “provide a staff person in each classroom with a wearable panic alert device that allows for immediate contact with emergency services or emergency services agencies, law enforcement agencies, health departments, and fire departments.”
It went into effect May 1, 2024.
Learn about this important legislation, how it helps make schools safer, and how Utah Schools can meet and exceed compliance in our Alyssa’s Law Playbook. Download your copy today.
Alyssa’s Law Passes in Utah: Part of House Bill 84
Governor Spencer Cox recently signed Alyssa’s Law, authored by Sen. Don Ipson and Rep. Ryan Wilcox, into law. This legislation, included as part of the Utah’s largest school safety measure, H.B. 84, will require Utah public and charter schools to “provide a staff person in each classroom with a wearable panic alert device that allows for immediate contact with emergency services or emergency services agencies, law enforcement agencies, health departments, and fire departments.”
Alyssa’s Law is named for Alyssa Alhadeff, a victim of the 2018 Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School shooting, and has been championed by Alyssa’s parents, Lori and Dr. Ilan Alhadeff. Alyssa’s Law has garnered support across the political spectrum as a common-sense solution for school safety.
The new law requires schools to adopt emergency communications systems such as CrisisAlert™—part of the CENTEGIX Safety Platform™—a rapid incident response solution that helps protect students and staff members by empowering teachers and staff to immediately get help with a discreet panic button on a wearable badge. CrisisAlert operates via a private network, the ideal solution for schools where gaps in Wi-Fi and poor cellular signals can often disrupt connectivity. With intelligent response mapping and campus-wide notification capabilities, CrisisAlert can simultaneously send a school into lockdown while immediately providing first responders with exact location information, enabling them to respond faster in an emergency situation.
In addition to emergency communication systems, H.B. 84 also mandates:
School safety incident and data reporting requirements
Additional school safety requirements
School Safety and Support Grant: House Bill 61
The Utah State Legislature recently passed a new school safety funding program—The School Safety and Support Grant. This grant program, also known as House Bill 61, allocates 72 million dollars for Utah schools to purchase safety and security enhancements for their campuses and creates new requirements for schools around safety and security.
“There are schools in our state that don’t have working intercoms,” Utah State Board of Education School Safety Specialist Rhett Larsen. “There are schools that don’t have locks on interior doors or locks that work on interior doors.”
In order to apply for the grant funding, schools must each have a designated school safety specialist on staff and complete a building safety assessment.
Allowable expenses include but are not limited to:
interoperable communication hardware and software systems
panic buttons
utilization of all-hazards response technology
The deadline to apply for this grant was September 15, 2023.
Find Funding for Utah School Safety Solutions
CENTEGIX Safety Report
2025 School Safety Trends: Together, Training and Technology Save Lives
Discover our latest, comprehensive analysis of school safety incidents gathered from the CENTEGIX Safety Platform™ usage data for the 2024-2025 school year, as well as insights from the hundreds of school safety and district administration leaders we’ve connected with over the last 12 months, in our report 2025 School Safety Trends: Together, Training and Technology Save Lives.
Download your copy today.
How Are Your Resources Being Spent?
CENTEGIX protects over 15,000 locations across the country. We can protect yours, too.
The CENTEGIX Safety Platform™, featuring CrisisAlert™, accelerates your response to emergencies. We’ve built the CENTEGIX Safety Platform to support you in the single most critical factor of incident response: time.
Discover resources to fund new safety and security initiatives in your district by exploring funding resources for school safety.
CENTEGIX Webinars
Leveraging Safety to Improve Teacher Retention and Recruitment | March 2024
Harm Mitigation: Keeping Your Staff Safe | March 2024
School Emergency Response: A Police Chief’s Perspective | April 2024
School Safety: Keep It Easy | April 2024
Hear from Our Educators
We engage with teachers and staff every day to understand how CrisisAlert supports them, and here’s what they’ve shared:
A student was having trouble breathing and her vision was beginning to black out. We don’t have service in our building and it can be difficult to get ahold of the office staff, so having something to immediately alert them of emergency was incredibly helpful in a very scary situation.
I had a student who was refusing to follow directions and became very defiant. This student was beginning to get aggressive. I used my badge to alert our campus security monitor to remove the student from the situation. It is a very useful tool when the response was as immediate as it was.
A student was having a severe panic attack, trouble speaking, crying, not able to answer my questions as to what was wrong with her. I used the device to call for administrative help and it worked like it was designed to. Help arrived in a matter of seconds. I saw firsthand how well it works.
Championing Safe Schools with Educators and Educator Associations
CrisisAlert Is in a Class of Its Own
We don’t just raise the bar. We built it.
CrisisAlert leads the industry in wearable panic button technology. As the most trusted, proven, and deployed solution on the market, it delivers unrivaled reliability, redundancy, notification, and response capabilities.
Unlike other wearable panic buttons, CrisisAlert activates a fully integrated emergency response and notification system, including flashing strobes, intercom announcements, and computer screen takeovers. It’s the only solution with 100% campus-wide coverage that immediately sends a digital map to first responders with precise location details, down to the exact floor and room, detailing every safety asset in proximity of the alert, to protect your staff wherever they are.
In an Emergency, You Need CrisisAlert™
Adverse situations can happen at any moment—from everyday crises such as medical emergencies, severe weather, and physical altercations to extreme situations that threaten your entire campus. The faster you get help to the right location, the better the outcome.
See how our CrisisAlert wearable mobile panic button empowers staff to get help instantly in an emergency.
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