The Adams administration is again testing panic button technology in classrooms, after a previous pilot with a separate company became central to an FBI investigation into potential conflicts of interest.

The city will distribute the new panic buttons to 51 schools across the five boroughs this year. The “Emergency Alert System” was developed by the city’s Office of Technology and Innovation in partnership with SOS Technologies. The buttons connect staff directly to 911, the NYPD’s school security division, and emergency medical services in potential active-shooter situations.

“We cannot stop all of the senseless violence, [but] we’re going to try like Hell to do so,” Mayor Eric Adams said at a press conference at Spring Creek Community School in Brooklyn on Monday. “Our parents must fee

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