Essex Panic Button App

LockNow Safety supports schools near Essex with emergency alerts and communication to respond immediately to active threats. Our alert system ensures immediate communication during critical moments, giving your campus the confidence to act fast. Improve your school safety with emergency alerts from LockNow, ensuring the ability to communicate and respond to an intruder immediately.

Across the Essex area, LockNow Safety equips schools with tools for immediate crisis or intruder response.

Our panic button technology enables any educator or staff member to alert the entire school within seconds of identifying a threat. Designed with insights from safety professionals and educators, the LockNow Safety App helps prevent the breakdowns in communication that contributed to incidents in Parkland, Florida and Uvalde, Texas. In emergencies, speed and shared awareness save lives.

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Customizable

The Locknow Safety App is tailored to meet the unique needs of your campus. You decide who can send alerts, initiate drills, and manage permissions. We recommend giving all staff access to the panic button for active threat situations. During emergencies, the app simplifies communication, allowing users to receive updates, report issues, and share vital information. You can also assign specific users to receive text alerts only. Whether your school has one campus or several, Locknow gives you full control over user settings.

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Authorities

With the LockNow Safety App, cooperating emergency responders and local authorities can be integrated into your alert system to receive critical notifications.
They can choose to receive only active shooter alerts, ensuring they’re not disturbed by routine drill messages.
When a panic button is pressed, registered responders are notified simultaneously with school staff, enabling faster coordination and quicker action.
They can also opt to receive text alerts only, if preferred.

What Are People Saying

“LockNow has features that are easy to use and can help deliver critical information when time is of the essence,” said Josh Angel, Superintendent of the Marion C. Early School District.

At LockNow Safety, we understand the demands placed on school leaders. That’s why our team handles all technology-related concerns, allowing principals and administrators to concentrate on their core duties.
Founded by a former principal, our approach is built on empathy and efficiency.
We serve each individual with the attention they deserve, because safety matters to everyone.

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Our Founder

Randy is a veteran school administrator and protection officer with a 30-year track record in safety leadership.
With firsthand experience across the full spectrum of security operations, Randy excels at crafting forward-thinking defenses, managing active threats, and conducting thorough assessments of current protocols.
He specializes in facility security and emergency communication, offering hands-on training and strategic guidance to organizations ranging from schools and churches to corporate teams.

Our Passion

Your school community deserves the best in safety and preparedness.

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About Essex

Essex is the most populous town in the u.s. State of vermont and the second most populous incorporated area in chittenden county, vermont and the entire state of vermont, with the first being burlington, vermont at 42,452 according to a 2015 u.s. Census estimate. Essex has an estimated population of 21,199 in 2016. The village of essex junction is located within the town, and that village is home to the state of vermont’s busiest amtrak station and largest private employer, globalfoundries. Vermont route 289 crosses the town from east to west. Essex is located in central chittenden county, bordered on the south by the winooski river. Neighboring municipalities are colchester to the west, milton at the northwest corner, westford to the north, underhill at the northeast corner, jericho to the east, williston to the south, and the city of south burlington to the southwest. According to the united states census bureau, the town of essex has a total area of 39.3 square miles, of which 38.8 square miles is land and 0.50 square miles, or 1.26%, is water. As of the census of 2010, there were 19,587 people and 7,322 households in the town. The racial makeup of the town was 91.6% non-hispanic white, 1.5% black or african american, 3.2% asian, 0.3% native american, 0.1% other races, and 1.8% from two or more races. Hispanic or latino of any race made up 1.7% of the population. The population density was 534 people per square mile. There were 7,170 housing units at an average density of 183.8 per square mile. There were 7,013 households out of which 38.5% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 59.7% were married couples living together, 8.8% had a female householder with no husband present, and 28.5% were non-families. 21.7% of all households were made up of individuals and 5.5% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.62 and the average family size was 3.09.