Overview
- Education Commissioner Anastasios Kamoutsas announced the three pilot districts and confirmed roughly $557,000 in state funding.
- The Volusia County Sheriff’s Office detailed a new partnership with Campus Guardian Angel and set an early‑2026 start for implementation.
- Officials say the drones will tie into Alyssa Alert to deliver real‑time audio and video to school security teams and law enforcement.
- The company describes onboard sirens, lights, loudspeakers, pepper spray and ramming as nonlethal options, with claimed dispatch in seconds guided remotely from an Austin operations center using a digital twin of each school.
- Broward’s superintendent said the district will begin with a single campus, likely a high school, as the pilot assesses effectiveness and potential costs the company estimates at $4 to $8 per student per month.