Jon Barefoot, Vice President of Security, Safety, and Disaster Preparedness at Indiana University Health, explains how executive buy-in was achieved by demonstrating SafeZone’s value firsthand. He describes how leadership alignment, innovative funding models, and clear risk-reduction data helped justify the investment.
Joe Monroe, Chief of Police at the University of Kentucky, explains why early stakeholder engagement was critical to SafeZone’s success. He highlights the importance of aligning IT, student groups, administration, and the healthcare enterprise to ensure institution-wide adoption.
Garrey Martinez, Director of Emergency Management at CU Anschutz, explains how SafeZone helps create a strong sense of safety across campus. He shares how active monitoring and support from first responders and key stakeholders give students, faculty, and staff confidence that help is always available when needed.
Daran Dodd, Chief of Police at UNC Asheville, explains how SafeZone provided command and control during extreme weather conditions. He describes how geofencing, mapping, and resource visibility helped manage responders and maintain situational awareness when traditional communications failed.
Clint Jones, Project Manager at Tarleton State University, shares how engaging stakeholders early was critical to SafeZone’s successful implementation. He explains how involving wellness, police, housing, travel, and student affairs teams helped drive adoption and create a unified safety approach across the university.
Christopher Jamison of Alertus explains how strong integration between safety platforms improves communication and expands institutional capabilities. He shares why Alertus partnered with CriticalArc to strengthen messaging, enhance mass notification, and deliver greater value to higher education customers.
Barbara O’Connor, Assistant Vice President for Public Safety at Florida State University, explains how university policing has evolved into a critical component of campus and community safety. She discusses the growing importance of campus police, stronger collaboration with municipal partners, and how safety directly impacts a university’s ability to attract students, staff, and visitors.
Associate Vice President of Operations Gabriel Valencia-Martinez, Manager of Campus Security Seth Miller, and Director of Security David Sevesind at Western University of Health Sciences, explain how a security assessment uncovered previously unknown gaps in compliance, emergency preparedness, and campus safety. They share how expert guidance helped leadership understand risks and begin building a stronger, more unified safety strategy.
Mike Johnson, Chief of Police at Texas A&M University, and Kary Shaffer, Assistant Chief at Texas A&M University, explain how SafeZone supports game day operations at massive scale. They discuss how real-time location awareness and indoor positioning improve situational awareness, officer deployment, and coordination during events with more than 100,000 attendees.
Richie Miller, Lieutenant at UNT Health Fort Worth, explains the complexity of providing safety on a campus that combines higher education, research, and a seven-story medical clinic serving the public and incarcerated populations. He shares how SafeZone supports duty of care across students, staff, patients, and the broader community.