School safety is meeting innovation at some Dallas ISD campuses.

Those campuses are using the latest technology to keep track of where kids are during the school day, especially since students don't have cellphones on them this year.

Robert T. Hill Middle School in Dallas has a tech-savvy way of giving its students a hall pass.

Every year, principal Candice Ruiz strives to find innovative ways to keep her students safe, and a program called Securly could be the most high-tech hall pass she's ever seen.

The program assigns students to a designated bathroom and gives them a timer. Students click on a teacher's name, then their assigned bathroom, or nurse's office or library.

On the administrative side, teachers approve the hall pass, then, the countdown starts.

If a student takes l

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