Rapid City Panic Button App

LockNow Safety supports schools near Rapid City 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.

LockNow Safety enables and supports an immediate active shooter response to schools of all sizes across the Rapid City area.

Our panic button technology allows any staff member to send an emergency alert to the entire campus the instant a threat is observed.

Developed with extensive experience, resources, and collaboration across the safety, security, and education sectors, the LockNow Safety App helps prevent delays in communication such as those in Parkland, Florida and Uvalde, Texas.

The first step to a swift response in an active shooter incident is immediate awareness for everyone.

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Customizable

With the Locknow Safety App, we customize the app to fit your campus and user needs. You control who can activate and receive alerts as well as who can activate drills and other permissions. We typically recommend that all staff have access to the panic button and active threat alert. Additional features during an active threat event allow simple communication for all users to receive updates, report concerns, or provide important information. Locknow customization provides the option to select particular users to receive text alerts only. You have control of how your facility is set up. Does your school have multiple campuses? We can connect your administrators to each campus if you prefer — again, you determine each user”s settings.

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Authorities

The LockNow Safety App ensures that cooperating agencies and first responders stay informed during real emergencies and active shooter situations.
They can be registered to receive app or text alerts for active threats only, bypassing drill notifications.
This simultaneous alerting system helps emergency teams respond faster and more effectively when seconds matter most.

What Are People Saying

Korey Miles, Superintendent of Mound City Schools, stated:
“We have used the LockNow Safety App in real crisis situations, unfortunately two times.
It has enabled us to alert our staff immediately and keep them up to date as the event unfolded.
It gives our staff peace of mind that we can communicate immediately.”

Schools using LockNow Safety benefit from responsive, personalized support.
Our team takes over when technology challenges arise, removing the burden from administrators.
With leadership experience at our core, we know how to serve without adding stress.
Every person is treated individually because safety is not just a system—it’s a commitment.

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Our Founder

Randy brings over 29 years of experience as a school administrator and school protection officer.
He specializes in facility safety practices and crisis communication, and is a certified instructor.
Randy offers safety training and expert guidance for churches, schools, and businesses.
With hands-on experience in every phase of the security process—from proactive planning to threat response and safety assessments—Randy delivers practical, real-world solutions.

Our Passion

Creating a safe and confident environment is more important than ever.
If your school is considering panic button technology to improve active threat response, our team is ready to help.

For expert safety solutions tailored to schools, churches, and businesses,

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Why Every School Needs a Panic Button System

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About Rapid City

Rapid city is the second most populous city in south dakota and the county seat of pennington county. Named after rapid creek, on which the city is established, it is set against the eastern slope of the black hills mountain range. The population was 67,956 as of the 2010 census. Known as the due to its location and the because of the life-size bronze president statues located downtown. Rapid city is split by a low mountain ridge that divides the western and eastern parts of the city. Ellsworth air force base is located on the outskirts of the city. Camp rapid, a part of the south dakota army national guard, is located in the western part of the city. Rapid city is home to popular attractions like art alley, dinosaur park, the city of presidents walking tour, chapel in the hills, storybook island, main street square and more. The historic town of deadwood is nearby. In the neighboring black hills are the popular tourist attractions of mount rushmore, the crazy horse memorial, custer state park, wind cave national park, jewel cave national monument, the museum at the black hills institute of geological research, and to the east of the city is badlands national park. Rapid city is located at 44.076188n 103.228299w/ 44.076188; -103.228299. The downtown elevation of rapid city is 3,202 feet, is the highest point east of the rocky mountains. As of the census of 2010, there were 67,956 people, 28,586 households, and 16,957 families residing in the city. The population density was 1,226.4 inhabitants per square mile. There were 30,254 housing units at an average density of 546.0 per square mile. The racial makeup of the city was 80.4% white, 1.1% african american, 12.4% native american, 1.0% asian, 0.1% pacific islander, 0.7% from other races, and 4.1% from two or more races.