Texas keeps adding evidence requirements to the safety fleet your district already installed: documented twice-yearly checks that the silent panic alert actually broadcasts to all campus staff, that phone systems deliver accurate 9-1-1 location, weekly exterior door records with three-year retention, and a growing list of reporting that flows through TEA's Sentinel system. In the state's own 2024-25 review, 19.20% of school systems did not meet the requirement to perform and document those checks, and 13.47% of campuses lacked compliant panic-alert technology. When the evidence can't be produced, the work lands on technology teams. This session maps the eight required checks against what camera, access-control, and panic systems can actually report, shows where the record breaks (local accounts, per-vendor consoles, no cross-system trail), and walks through a read-only architecture for producing audit-shaped records from the systems you already own.
