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Muskogee schools studying notification, security systems Officials hope to have structure in place by 2008 school year By Cathy SpauldingPhoenix Staff Writer In late March, one Muskogee elementary school received a bomb threat within 30 minutes before the end of the school day on a Friday afternoon. But officials were not able to notify all the parents of exactly what happened until a letter was sent home with students the following Monday.
A mass notification system also would let parents know about weather-related school closings, officials said. Representatives from Honeywell Building Solutions presented their Instant Alert program to school officials this week. The Instant Alert program uses a Web service hosted and secured by a central data center. The system is capable of sending more than 100,000 written messages simultaneously through e-mail, cell phones, pagers or other messaging devices, Instant Alert Product Manager Karla Lemmon said in a conference call. Text also could be converted into a voice message on telephones, or voice messages could be recorded and transcribed into text, she said. With a username and password, parents and students could apply for as many modes of instant communication as they want. The system has different levels of notification, so a parent may get a telephone call about an emergency lockdown, but not a bake sale. Wilson said the district is looking at several notification systems. 
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