N: Campus Safety Magazine Interview with Mutualink
If Your Security System and Communications Aren’t Shareable, How Can They Help You? | Campus Safety Magazine Mutualink’s LNK360 hybrid cloud platform seamlessly integrates your existing security products with current cutting-edge text, video, two-way radio, and other voice communications. Campuses are increasing their investments in surveillance and security technology. Unfortunately, these advancements alone do little to aid in an emergency. Fortunately, there is a solution: Mutualink. As the only universally connectable Multimedia Interoperability Solution, Mutualink’s...
N: Belen Consolidated Schools Test Mutualink In Active Shooter Drills
Belen Schools train with new emergency video system | Julia M. Dendinger | News-Bulletin Assistant Editor BELEN — One local school district is adding software to its security system that will offer emergency responders “a look behind the curtain,” during a crisis situation at a school site. On Thursday, June 13, Belen Consolidated Schools personnel went through active-shooter training scenarios at Infinity High School to begin testing Mutualink, a system that will give administrators, emergency...
N: Exclusive News 8 Investigation Featuring Joe Dooley of Mutualink
Exclusive News 8 Investigation Featuring Joe Dooley of Mutualink | reveals hundreds of knives, dozens of handguns seized in Connecticut schools by: Jeff Derderian NEW HAVEN, Conn. (WTNH) — Horrific just isn’t a big enough word to describe what happened in Connecticut. On Dec. 14, 2012, at Sandy Hook Elementary School, the state — and the country — watched in horror as the tragic details washed over everyone like a tidal wave....
N: The #1 Emergency Response Solution Boosting East Texas School Safety
How Lost Time Cost Lives in The Uvalde School Shooting The devastating impact of the Robb Elementary School shooting in Uvalde continues to reverberate. The most recent DOJ report underscores the critical importance of a successful emergency response solution to save time in emergencies, prompting Smith County Sheriff Larry Smith to take decisive action to enhance East Texas School Safety. Sheriff Larry Smith expressed deep concern over the incident, recognizing the vulnerability of children in...
N: CENTEGIX Partners With Mutualink to Connect First Responders
CENTEGIX Partners With Mutualink To Accelerate Connection Between First Responders (Atlanta, GA) January 5, 2021 – CENTEGIX, an IoT company that innovates technology to save and enrich lives, is partnering with Mutualink, a leader in public safety interoperability solutions, to advance two-way radio and video communications to first responders in the case of an emergency. Both CENTEGIX and Mutualink focus on interoperability for public safety organizations and work diligently to secure communities. CENTEGIX’s CrisisAlert™ platform is an incident...
N: Verizon enhances emergency communications – Push-to-Talk Responder
Verizon enhances communications for first responders with Push-to-Talk Responder Verizon Push-to-Talk Responder enables first responders to collaborate across agencies to drive more effective, interoperable responses BASKING RIDGE, NJ – Today, Verizon introduces Push-to-Talk Responder, a mission-critical, interoperable-ready solution that delivers a more efficient way for first responders to seamlessly share and receive data, voice, and, in the future, video content to more comprehensively respond to a crisis. Push-to-talk (PTT) is a means of instantaneous communication in...
N: (Video) Panic Button Installed in Volusia County
(Video) Panic button installed in Volusia County schools It's no secret that COVID-19 made this year's back-to-school season a challenge for students, parents, teachers and school administrators. However, school security professionals in Florida know that the safety of their students encompasses more than the threat of pandemic. It takes a panic alert and emergency communications technology. Lessons learned from the Parkland tragedy, and the shortcomings identified in the report from the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High...
Senate committee explores how Texans can prevent mass violence
Texas Senate Select Committee on Mass Violence Meets Thank you to Wes Rapaport for speaking with Mutualink's Solutions Executive in Texas, Devra Kelly, last week in Austin to discuss the legislature's focus on solving mass violence in Texas. In addition to Texas Department of Public Safety, several county public safety agencies and school districts use Mutualink's interoperability platform to improve communications and information sharing. The solution connects disparate radio systems within and agency, and also...
Florida teachers use app for active shooter alerts
Teachers use app to give active shooter alerts in Central Florida By: Lauren Seabrook , James Tutte from WFTV 9 ABC Orlando Updated: Jan 9, 2019 - 8:20 PM SEMINOLE COUNTY, Fla. - Many teachers around Central Florida now have the power in the palm of their hands to to dispatch hundreds of first responders for an active shooter, through an app. The Parkland Safety Commission wants all school districts to give law enforcement agencies live access to...
TECHNOLOGY PLAYS ROLE KEEPING ATLANTIC CITY SAFE
(Atlantic City) - The Atlantic City Police Department says it has been getting ready for the upsurge in economic activity the city has seen that included the opening of two new casinos this past summer. Deputy Police Chief James Sarkos said that unfortunately, the 22 percent uptick in economic activity this past summer from two new casino openings brought with it more opportunities for criminal activity. "We try to stay one step ahead of that...
Storms to Super Bowls, Mutualink Has Comms Covered
10/22/2018 Valerie Amato, EMT When a mass casualty incident (MCI) occurs and requires mutual aid, efficient interagency communication is crucial to ensure operations go smoothly. Unfortunately, this is not always the case. Differing radio systems from multiple jurisdictions can cause a frenzy of communications between first responders via multiple radios and cell phones. This disorganization can make an already-complicated incident messier and harder to manage. To help allay the stress associated with this issue, Mutualink,...
Active Shooters in Schools
Mitigating Active Shooters in Schools The goal of schools and education, in general, is to foster an environment that promotes learning and development for students. Not only is the safety of the children the highest priority for our society, but establishing a community in which children feel safe is the predicate for them to reach their maximum potential when involving their studies. This assertion is supported by data from a 2015 LSU study suggesting that...
