The Safe Zone Solution
Genesis of a Solution
One evening in 2023, Safe Zone Solution founder Alex Sol was shaken to his core by the appearance on the evening news of Mia Cerrillo, a 10-year old survivor of a mass school shooting. Mia recounted how she survived the slaughter of her classmates by covering herself in the blood of her best friend & playing dead. Alex was galvanized by this story, along with all the other accounts of the school shootings that have swept our country. A father of two school-age daughters, Alex was determined to do something about our national scourge.
What can one father accomplish that will make a difference?
The Safe Zone Solution
In October of 2023 Alex founded The Safe Zone Solution, a non-profit 501(c)3 organization. The vision animating the Safe Zone Solution is the conviction that the way to stop the epidemic of school shootings is to have shootings legally categorized as Emergency Safety Hazards, in the same way that fire and earthquake is, universally mandating the targeted relevant safety features in the building codes.
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Currently there are NO state or federal laws that mandate any ballistic safety features or protections for students, while there exist numerous fire safety features afforded to students for fire crisis prevention.
Shooting safety features that are specifically designed to protect students inside of schools from shooters are readily available. However, none of these are mandated for student and faculty safety in K-12 campuses.
The Safe Zone Solution has arrived at a 3-legged approach
to provide theses targeted safety features for K-12 schools:
Maximum level bullet-resistant polycarbonate glazing is placed on all exterior entryway points vestibule door windows denying forced entry and allowing faculty inside to coordinate safety.
A Level 5 bullet resistant door specially designed for schools is placed on every classroom and faculty office door creating “a Safe Zone”
Modern entryway firearms detection systems implemented to alert mobile staff and personnel when a firearm is brought onto the campus, without alerting students or the perpetrator.