This bill would allow the Dept. of Justice (DOJ) to offer grants to local school districts for buying and installing devices that would allow for the immediate notification of first responders or law enforcement if there’s a health emergency, shooting, or natural disaster at a school. The devices would be placed in classrooms and known as “SOS buttons.”
The maximum grant a school district could receive is $200,000 in a fiscal year, and school districts would be required to cover at least 25 percent of the cost of buying and installing the devices out of their own funding.