Police receive award for innovative excellence
Article By: Staff
Based on the seamless integration of the COVID-19 reporting option on the LiveSafe app, the University of North Georgia (ÎçÒ¹¿ì²¥) was recently honored with an Excellence in Innovation award.
LiveSafe, which contracts with ÎçÒ¹¿ì²¥ to supply a public safety app, recognized the university with the highest accolade among its 400-plus clients. Some of those clients include other ÎçÒ¹¿ì²¥ institutions.
"We were highly impressed with ÎçÒ¹¿ì²¥'s commitment to leveraging the latest technology innovations to help get their students and staff back to campus safely," said Carolyn Parent, CEO of LiveSafe. "ÎçÒ¹¿ì²¥'s public safety and emergency preparedness leadership demonstrated a keen understanding of the capabilities LiveSafe brought to the COVID-19 challenge and they executed the rollout with dedication and precision."
Nick Parker, public safety systems specialist with ÎçÒ¹¿ì²¥ Police, said LiveSafe collaborated with ÎçÒ¹¿ì²¥ to integrate the new reporting section into the public safety app. It helped make ÎçÒ¹¿ì²¥'s reporting and contact tracing a success, he said.
"We were ahead of the game of implementing this reporting process," said Greg Williams, associate director of emergency preparedness at ÎçÒ¹¿ì²¥. "While other schools were talking about it, we pushed it and finished it before our students returned to campus."