Alyssa's Law in Oklahoma
Oklahoma requires each school district to implement a mobile panic alert system, beginning with the 2024-2025 school year. The system must integrate with 9-1-1 infrastructure.
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What does the Oklahoma law require?
Each school district "shall implement" a mobile panic alert system. The system must connect emergency service technologies for real-time coordination among multiple first responder agencies. It must integrate with 9-1-1 (public safety answering point) infrastructure.
The State Board of Education must adopt a list of approved mobile panic alert systems. An approved system must:
- automatically alert designated school personnel when an alert is started by smartphone app, phone call, text message or other technology
- give emergency responders floor plans and the caller's location during a 9-1-1 call
Who is covered?
School districts.
When did it take effect?
HB 4073 took effect July 1, 2024, under an emergency clause. The requirement applies beginning with the 2024-2025 school year.
How can districts pay for it?
State school security money can pay for physical security enhancements, and the law lists mobile panic alert systems among them.
What has the state published?
The State Board approved eleven vendors that districts may contract with for mobile panic button services. The State Department of Education's Office of School Safety and Security is the department's contact for the RAVE panic button.
Bill and statute history
| Item | Detail |
|---|---|
| Bill | HB 4073, Laws 2024, chapter 408 |
| Authors | Rep. Kevin Wallace and Sen. Darrell Weaver |
| Effective | July 1, 2024 |
| Statute | 70 O.S. § 5-149.4; HB 4073 also amended 70 O.S. § 5-148.2 |
How can QuickSecure help?
Panic, the QuickSecure mobile app, lets any staff member raise an Alert from a phone. Schools start with Lockdown, Fire, Medical and Admin Alerts, each with its response workflow already built, and can add their own Alert types with their own workflows.
Schools can also add a physical panic button.
Each school sets how every Alert type behaves: silent or announced, a critical alert or a normal notification, whether it also sends email and text messages, and how it looks, down to its color, icon and wording.
Dispatch sends the Alert straight to 911 through RapidSOS, with one confirmation step. Each school chooses which Alert types call 911.
Mass notifications lets a school choose how each message goes out: app notifications, critical alerts, text messages or email.
Nexus holds campus maps and floor plans, plus details such as where the AEDs are, who is on site, which class each person is in and their status, and responders can see them during an Alert.
Drill management runs practice drills through the same workflow as a real Alert, so in a real emergency every step is already familiar and nobody stops to second-guess it. A drill never sends a real Dispatch.
This is not a statement that any product satisfies Oklahoma law or appears on the State Board's approved list; check the list before you buy.