Schools in New York will be required to consider installing silent panic alarms to alert law enforcement during an emergency under a new law signed Thursday by Gov. Kathy Hochul.
The legislation, known as Alyssa’s Law, is named in honor of Alyssa Alhadeff. The 14-year-old was one of 17 people killed in the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School mass shooting in Parkland, Fla., in 2018.