Sarasota Panic Button

LockNow Safety offers churches near Sarasota critical panic button alerts and response support for Church Safety and Security Directors. Through LockNow Safety, your team gains immediate access to resources and training for handling active shooter emergencies. Our LockNow Safety App notifies church safety teams in real time, improving crisis response and ensuring the safety of your congregation. No more hunting for safety procedures — we deliver comprehensive guidance and emergency resources directly to your team.

Crisis Alerts for Churches

Church communities across Sarasota gain early awareness of active shooter threats through rapid safety alerts, enabling a more effective and timely response. The Locknow App provides instant emergency notifications to both on-site attendees and those on their way to church. These quick alerts enhance situational awareness and limit dangerous communication delays.

Churches throughout Sarasota trust the LockNow Safety App for rapid panic button alerts that support a stronger active threat response. The app provides your church safety team with:

• Immediate alerts during active shooter emergencies
• Text-based threat notifications for your entire community
• Simple two-way communication during crises
• Threat location details for enhanced awareness
• Emergency alerts plus the ability to run practice drills
• Guidance and safety signage to help direct your congregation
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With LockNow Safety App, your church has full authority over alerts and emergency procedures. Activate panic buttons, run drills, and send notifications to your team and congregation simultaneously. Instant push and text alerts provide critical situational awareness during active shooter incidents. The app allows real-time communication, selective text alerts, and management of multiple campuses from one dashboard.

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Our Founder

Randy Dougherty, founder of Locknow Safety, is a longtime school administrator and school protection officer with nearly three decades of hands-on safety experience, originally creating the Locknow Safety App to bolster protection for his district and now sharing his deep expertise in facility safety, crisis communication, and certified safety training with churches, schools, and businesses. His background includes supervising access points, overseeing the safety of visitors and passersby, and planning for responses to active threat situations. Randy has engaged in every level of the safety process, applying both proactive and reactive strategies to improve organizational security. To request a quote for the Locknow Safety App or Training programs, CLICK HERE.

Ensuring the safety of your congregation has always been central to church operations, but emerging threats require ongoing vigilance and preparation. LockNow Safety provides a comprehensive set of tools to help improve church security and strengthen active shooter response capabilities. We deliver in-person, on-site training for staff and volunteers as well as convenient live online and video training options. Our physical safety assessments identify vulnerabilities and guide improvement efforts. With our hands-on training, your people learn to design response plans and take decisive action if confronted with an active shooter event. To learn more, click here or watch this safety training video.

What We Do:

Church Security | Church Security Training | Church Security Guidelines | Church Security Ministry | Church Safety and Security | Safe Church Training | Church Safety and Security Plans | Church Active Shooter Plans

About Sarasota

Sarasota () is a city in sarasota county on the southwestern coast of the u.s. State of florida. The area is renowned for its cultural and environmental amenities, beaches, resorts, and the sarasota school of architecture. The city is at the southern end of the tampa bay area, north of fort myers and punta gorda. Its official limits include sarasota bay and several barrier islands between the bay and the gulf of mexico. According to the u.s. Census bureau, in 2013 sarasota had a population of 53,326. In 1986 it became designated as a certified local government. Sarasota is a principal city of the sarasota metropolitan area, and is the seat of sarasota county. The islands separating sarasota bay from the gulf near the city, known as keys, include lido key and siesta key, which are famous worldwide for the quality of their sandy beaches. The keys that are included in the boundary of sarasota are lido key, st. Armands key, otter key, casey key, coon key, bird key, and portions of siesta key. Previously, siesta key was named sarasota key. At one time, it and all of longboat key were considered part of sarasota and confusing contemporaneous references may be found discussing them. Longboat key is the largest key separating the bay from the gulf, but it was evenly divided by the new county line of 1921. The portion of the key that parallels the sarasota city boundary that extends to that new county line along the bay front of the mainland was removed from the city boundaries at the request of john ringling in the mid-1920s, who sought to avoid city taxation of his planned developments at the southern tip of the key. Although they never were completed in the quickly faltering economy, those development concessions granted by the city never were reversed and the county has retained regulation of those lands. The city limits had expanded significantly with the real estate rush of the early twentieth century, reaching almost 70 square miles. The wild speculation boom began to crash in 1926 and following that, the city limits began to contract, shrinking to less than a quarter of that area. According to the united states census bureau, the city has a total area of 25.9 square miles, of which 14.9 sq mi is land and 11.0 sq mi is water. As of the 2010 u.s. Census, there were 51,917 people residing in the city. The population density was 3,541.4 inhabitants per square mile. There were 29,151 housing units at an average density of 1,988.5 per square mile. The racial makeup of the city was 75.41% white, 15.11% african american, 0.43% native american, 1.33% asian, 0.04% pacific islander, 5.22% from other races, and 2.34% from two or more races. Hispanic or latino of any race were 16.63% of the population.

If your church wants guidance on improving safety measures, reach out to us at Team@Locknowapp.com. Our team delivers expert safety solutions for churches, schools, and businesses. We are committed to helping you foster a secure environment for your congregation to worship and thrive safely. We welcome your inquiries and are happy to assist in any way possible. CLICK HERE for a pricing quote for the Locknow Safety App.