New York City Mayor Eric Adams and New York City Chief Technology Officer (CTO) Matthew Fraser announced Monday, Oct. 27, the nation’s first pilot program directly integrating public schools with 911 services for life-saving rapid response in case of an active shooter situation. City officials said more than 1,900 K-12 school shooting incidents occurred in the United States between 2015 and September 2025, according to the K-12 School Shooting Database , and K-12 school shootings peaked at 351 in 2023. They said another 336 occurred in 2024.

The new Emergency Alert System (EAS) created by the New York City Office of Technology and Innovation (OTI) debuted at the Spring Creek campus in Brooklyn, the first school building in the United States to have direct 911 integration,

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