MIR3 inCampusAlert is Praised by New York Governor, New York City Police Commissioner, State Assembly Member and University Administration.
NEW YORK, NY –[EMERGENCY NOTIFICATION NEWS]-- October 1, 2007 – After a masked gunman was spotted and subdued without a single injury on the campus of St. John’s University on September 26, New York City Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly told a news conference, “St. John's newly instituted emergency text messaging system worked like a charm.” The inCampusAlert™ Intelligent Notification (IN®) system, provided to St. John’s University by MIR3™, a California technology company that specializes in automated emergency notification systems for corporations, governments and universities, was credited with quickly keeping the campus population informed and calm and for enhancing public safety during the crisis.
MIR3 claims that inCampusAlert is the only mass notification system in the market today which allows for true two-way texting. According to MIR3, New York Governor Eliot Spitzer praised the recently installed MIR3 campus-notification system at St. John’s University, and New York Assemblyman Rory I. Lancman offered legislation requiring universities to implement emergency campus-notification at college and university campuses throughout New York State.
Dr. James Pellow, chief operating officer of St. John's University, lobbied his administration for an emergency notification system shortly after the Virginia Tech tragedy in April 2007. inCampusAlert was installed in early September. Last week, Dr. Pellow was quoted in the media as saying, “No one thought that we would be testing this latest technology this quickly for an emergency”... it “allowed us to manage this mini-city of 20,000 people.” The initial emergency alert was sent using MIR3 technology to St. John University’s campus on September 26 by Thomas Lawrence, the university's vice president for public safety and a former deputy chief of the New York Police Department. The message read as follows: “From Public Safety. Male was found on campus with rifle. Please stay in your buildings until further notice. He is in custody, but please wait until the all clear.”
According to a recent survey by the Pew Research Center, more than 70 percent of 18- to 29-year-olds own a cell phone and 92 percent of them use text messages regularly. “The University's response serves as a national model,” New York Police Commissioner Kelly added. “Coincidentally, St. John's was one of the participants in our campus security conference last week, during which we examined the emergency response at Virginia Tech, and other campuses.”
Source: Vendor Press Release
MIR3’s Campus-Notification System is Praised for Performance During Real-Life Threat at New York’s St. John’s University
