Share911 · Alyssa’s Law
Alyssa’s Law, without the hardware bill.
Thirteen states have enacted Alyssa’s Law or its equivalent, and more are on the way. Nearly all of them ask for one thing: a silent alert any staff member can raise that reaches everyone in the building and 911 at once. Share911 does exactly that from the phones and computers your staff already have — for a fraction of what wearable-badge systems cost.
13 states enacted · Federal ALYSSA Act pending in Congress · $10 per staff member per year · No hardware
Step one
What does your state actually require?
The laws are not the same. Some require a system in every classroom by a fixed date, some only ask schools to consider one, and one requires a wearable device. Pick your state and see the real requirement, with the statute it comes from.
Start with the question you’re actually asking
Which state is your school in, and roughly how many staff do you have?
Count everyone who works in the building — teachers, aides, office, custodial, cafeteria — because every one of them should be able to raise the alarm.
What Alyssa’s Law asks for
Three things. None of them is hardware.
Strip away the vendor language and almost every enacted law comes down to the same three capabilities. The word “wearable” appears in one statute that requires it and two that merely permit it. Everywhere else, the law describes what the alert must do, not what it must look like.
1
A silent alert any staff member can raise
Discreet, with no sound in the building, from wherever they are — a classroom, a hallway, the field, the parking lot — and with their location attached, the same way a badge would report it.
2
Everyone in the building knows
Lockdown, evacuate or hold — every staff member sees the same instruction at the same moment, not a rumor moving down the corridor.
3
911 is notified
The alert reaches the 911 center and law enforcement directly, with the school’s location. Share911 places a live operator voice call to law enforcement, which satisfies the silent panic alarm requirement.
How Share911 gets you there
One tap. Everyone in the building. 911.
The interface is deliberately small: the alert types a panic button gives you — threat, fire, medical — the procedures that follow, a check-in that shows where everyone is, and an all clear. Nobody has to remember how a system works in the worst minute of their career, and nobody has to find a badge, a wall button or a charger.
1
Set up your school
Name, buildings, who’s responsible, your local law enforcement and 911 center, and your staff — added by mobile number. An afternoon for a school, a week for a district.
2
Train your staff by text
Every staff member gets a text with a link to the procedures and the buttons, and confirms they’ve read it. That confirmation is your training record. A substitute starts Monday? Add a number.
3
Drill, and keep the evidence
Switch to drill mode, press Lockdown, watch acknowledgements come back from every classroom. The drill log — who, when, how long — is what you hand your board, your state agency and your insurer.
4
If it happens: raise the alert, everyone checks in, All Clear
A staff member taps once — threat, fire or medical — and every phone and computer in the building shows the same instruction, silently. 911 is notified with the location and law enforcement gets a live operator call. Every staff member checks in as safe or needing help, with where they are, so the office and the responders see the whole building at a glance — the picture a wearable gives, from the phone. All Clear when it’s over. Every action is logged.
What compliance costs
$10 per staff member per year. That’s the whole bill.
Alyssa’s Law compliance is being sold to districts as hardware: a badge for every teacher, receivers in every building, an installation contract, batteries, replacements, and a renewal every year. Schools don’t have unlimited money for every mandate. Share911 for Alyssa’s Law runs on the phones and computers your staff already have, and it costs what a mandate should.
A school with 60 staff
$600 a year
Every staff member can raise the alarm — threat, fire or medical. Everyone is notified. 911 is called. Everyone checks in with their location. Drills and training records included.
A district with 500 staff
$5,000 a year
Every school in the district on one standard, with a district-wide view and one set of evidence for the board.
Wearable badge systems
About $8,000 per building, per year
The figure a state legislature’s fiscal analysts used in 2026. One Virginia district compared an app-based system at $30–40K against badges at more than $100K.
Prices in USD. Share911 for Alyssa’s Law is $10 per staff member per year for the compliance essentials on this page; the full Share911 platform, with accountability, LiveView and multi-channel delivery, is priced separately. State school-safety funding and federal COPS grants can often be applied.
Straight talk
If your state requires a wearable, we’ll tell you.
Utah’s statute requires a wearable device for the lead teacher in every classroom. Virginia and West Virginia only describe wearable systems, though they require nothing. Bills in Ohio and Minnesota are drafted around wearables. Share911 doesn’t sell badges, and we won’t pretend otherwise: if that’s your state, talk to us about what a phone-based layer adds alongside one, or we’ll tell you we can’t help. Everywhere else, the law describes a capability, and a phone meets it.
Public safety
Free for police, fire, EMS and 911 centers. Always.
When a school raises an alert, responders see the same picture the school sees: which procedure is in force, which building, who has checked in. Local law enforcement and 911 centers participate at no cost, so the connection Alyssa’s Law requires is one your responders will actually use.
Questions superintendents and safety directors ask
Straight answers.
Does a phone-based system satisfy Alyssa’s Law?
In most enacted states, yes. Florida’s rule, Oklahoma’s statute, New York’s bill text, New Jersey’s Department of Education guidelines and Texas’s TEA rules all explicitly accept app-based systems, and Georgia, Tennessee and Illinois use “mobile panic alert system” language. Utah requires a wearable device. Two states add conditions: New Jersey expects installation by a licensed alarm business unless the DOE approves an alternative, and Texas also requires an automatic alert when any employee dials 911, caller location, and locking of remotely lockable doors. Use the state check above for yours.
Do staff need special devices or an app from an app store?
No. Staff raise and receive alerts from any phone or computer they already use, and can keep Share911 on their phone’s home screen so it’s one tap away. There is nothing to buy, charge, install on a wall or replace when it walks off in a jacket pocket.
How does 911 actually get notified?
When a staff member raises a lockdown, Share911 notifies your 911 center with the school’s location and places a live operator voice call to law enforcement, which satisfies the silent panic alarm requirement. We set this up with your local agencies during onboarding, and they see the same picture the school sees at no cost to them.
Is there funding?
Often. Florida funds Alyssa’s Alert with recurring state money, Texas through its school safety allotment, Georgia with $50 million in security grants, Oklahoma with a state-funded program, Utah through state contracts, and Washington, Oregon, Louisiana and Tennessee with grants. Federal COPS School Violence Prevention grants can apply anywhere. At $10 per staff member, most schools can also simply pay for it.
What about the federal bill?
The ALYSSA Act (H.R. 1524) would tie federal education funding to having at least one silent panic alarm in every public school, defined as a silent signal generated by manually activating a device that requires a law enforcement response. It is pending in committee. Share911 already meets that definition, so a school that complies with its state law today is ready if the federal bill passes.
How is this different from a wearable badge?
A badge does two things: it raises an alert with a location, and it can be pressed in different ways for different emergencies. Share911 does both from the phone — threat, fire or medical, with the staff member’s location — and then does what a badge can’t: it tells every person in the building what to do, collects a check-in from each of them with where they are, and gives responders the whole picture. It also covers the substitute, the coach on the field and the custodian who never got a badge, and it works alongside hardware you already own.
Comply this school year.
Check your state, get a quote for your staff count, or see it working in fifteen minutes.
OnScene Technologies’ products support your emergency response. They do not replace it. In an emergency, always call 911. This page is a plain-English summary of state laws as of September 2026, not legal advice — confirm requirements with your state education agency.