Denver Public Schools Selects CentralSquare’s Public Safety Pro Suite to Speed Response Times and Support Student and Staff Safety
April 16 2024 - 8:15AM
Business Wire
Integrated mapping and real-time information
sharing will improve emergency response coordination
CentralSquare Technologies, an industry leader in public sector
technology, today announced Denver Public Schools (DPS) will deploy
CentralSquare’s Public Safety Pro Suite ahead of the 2024-2025
school year, improving coordination and communication for first
responders to swiftly address school safety incidents and support
student and staff safety.
Uniquely, at DPS, call takers double as dispatchers, handling
the full communication cycle to lock down schools and send
responding units when needed. With 88,000 students and 10,000
full-time employees spanning 207 schools, DPS Department of Safety
has received 18,000 calls since August 2023 as of February 9. To
effectively manage and respond to the districts’ safety incidents,
DPS needed the ability to categorize data, enable real-time
automatic vehicle locator (AVL) tracking and integrate mapping
systems with their Computer Aided Dispatch (CAD).
“Officers currently use outside GPS sources to identify how
close an incident is to a school, taking critical time away from
active response,” said Jennifer Weston, Dispatch Supervisor,
Department of Safety for DPS. “School safety extends beyond the
perimeters of the school facilities, so we need solutions like
CentralSquare’s CAD to integrate mapping and create a seamless flow
of information for our responders.”
DPS will also transition to CentralSquare’s Records Management
System (RMS) to improve report generation for officers in the field
and ensure accurate and timely data pulls.
“Public safety response can be a complex challenge for school
districts to navigate coordination between school resource
officers, local city, county and state police,” said Joe Beasley,
Vice President of Public Safety and Justice at CentralSquare
Technologies and former school resource officer. “This makes it
critical to have the right technology in place to break down
barriers in communication and enable faster, more coordinated
responses when time is of the essence and the safety of students
and staff is on the line.”
About CentralSquare Technologies
CentralSquare Technologies is the largest independent public
sector software provider that powers all aspects of managing local
government to build smarter and safer communities. Public sectors
across North America use CentralSquare to enable efficiencies and a
seamless end-to-end integrated experience by using innovative,
cloud-based solutions and automation. CentralSquare’s scalable
technology helps state and local agencies thrive operationally,
even during states of emergency in public safety when every second
counts. Its intuitive enterprise software also includes
user-friendly platforms to support public administration agencies
with finance, asset, compliance, case management and much more to
drive better public experiences.
As the market driver for advancing safety and justice with
innovative technology, CentralSquare serves 3 out of 4 citizens
across North America. The company is headquartered in Lake Mary, FL
and has locations in North Carolina, South Dakota and British
Columbia. More information is available at CentralSquare.com.
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Katie O’Brien, RH Strategic on behalf of CentralSquare,
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