OKLAHOMA CITY (KOKH) — “Alyssa’s Law” named after a Parkland School shooting victim now requires all Oklahoma schools to invest in safety and security.

But one Oklahoma City parent tells FOX25 this should only be the first step.

Over 5,000 cameras across the district are monitored 24 hours a day.

Oklahoma City Public Schools (OKCPS) has more security technology than some small cities in the state.

Wayland Cubit, chief security officer for OKCPS said, “We use these camera systems and all the technology to help us predict and prevent crime, identify locked doors and help us notify us if there is a danger that other people may not be aware of. . “

All Oklahoma schools are now required by law to provide emergency personnel with construction blueprints and access to security cameras in the event of an emergency.

But OKCPS already did this.

Schools must also install an emergency panic button either in classrooms or through an app.

“We also have the rave panic button,” Cubit said.

During an emergency, teachers and staff can send an alert to the district’s operations center.

From this center they can see every camera across the district.

Each honeycomb is a different camera, they can bring up any camera using this motion capture technology to see what’s happening in real time.

These cameras capture moments like this one when Oklahoma City police caught a suspect in a school parking lot.

“These are all employees but if this was a school day we would have put the school on lockdown,” Cubit said.

Strangers on campus and school shootings are something OKCPS parent Carrie Coppernoll Jacobs says worries her and her children.

“It’s not something you want your child to have to think about, but it’s a reality,” Coppernoll Jacobs said.

She has a fourth grader at Kaiser Elementary.

While she thanks lawmakers for requiring new safety measures for children, she says much more than an emergency button is needed.

“Something like an app is good, but at the end of the day it’s a Band-Aid, and Band-Aids don’t fix bullet holes,” Coppernoll Jacobs said.

For OKCPS, the app is just one line of defense, but that’s not the case for all districts.

“There are a lot of school districts, especially rural school districts, that can’t afford new roofs, plumbing systems, basic stuff,” Coppernoll Jacobs said. “There’s no additional money for things like security vestibules and secured entrances, and I think that’s something that the Legislature should work on. So I hope the Legislature will continue to look at this and not say ‘hey, here’s an app and we” remade.”

Schools can qualify for school resource officer grants, and OKCPS staff say that after talking to other districts, many are making similar investments in security.

“A lot of them have done these panic buttons and protocols and charting,” Cubit said. “So I think the Legislature is catching up with school safety professionals in this case.”

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