I was reading an article about schools paying millions to install panic buttons, when I came across this line.
Back in 2015, Arkansas unveiled a smartphone app that more than 1,000 schools would be able to use to contact 911.
It would never have occurred to me to peddle an app that lets people call 911 from their phone. But it turns out that this is a real thing.
It seems to me that using the phone’s built-in feature to put direct dial contacts on the main screen would a lot faster and cheaper, but I’m not a corrupt politician or bureaucrat digging into what I figure are the taxpayers’ bottomless pockets.
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