Georgia Senate unanimously passes bill requiring panic buttons in all schools
by Chris Pae, Georgia Recorder Last September, the Barrow County Sheriff’s Office was bombarded with alerts of a shooting at Apalachee High School in Winder. The school had issued panic buttons to its teachers a week earlier, which allowed them to alert officers within minutes after a 14-year-old gunman first opened fire. “(The panic button) was extremely helpful in what we did that day of the incident,” Sheriff Jud Smith […]
