Nassau Exec Bruce Blakeman believes countys school emergency alert tech should be statewide after Brown University shooting

Nassau County Executive Bruce Blakeman says the deadly Brown University shooting proves its time to expand the county’s panic-button program that bypasses 911 to allow schools statewide to instantly notify local police.Blakeman — a Republican running for the gubernatorial nomination — is calling on Albany and Gov.Kathy Hochul to copy Nassau’s RAVE Panic Buttons, a single-tap emergency alert system that enables school administrators and staff to instantly notify police and first responders in the event of a threat.“In Nassau County, we took proactive steps to give our schools and first responders the tools they need to save lives,” Blakeman said.

The panic-button technology should be in every public school and university across the state, the wannabe governor warned. “The tragedy at Brown University is a heartbreaking reminder that we cannot wait until after disaster strikes to act,” he said, referring to the Rhode Island mass shooting that killed two and critically injured nine others. The crazed gunman remains on the loose.Under the Long Island program — signed into law 2016 by then Republican county executive Ed Mangano — schools trigger an immediate emergency response, share critical details, lock down facilities, and eliminate dangerous communication delays by tapping one button. Local police are even granted real-time access to school security cameras during emergencies, giving them views to assess threat levels, coordinate a response, and deploy resources with greater speed and precision, according to info detailing the program. Gordon Tepper, a spokesperson for Hochul, told The Post that school safety has been one of her top priorities, having already taken “aggressive steps” to curb gun violence — including signing some of the nation’s toughest gun laws and strengthening the state’s Red Flag laws.New York has also taken limited strides in beefing up school security with the rollout of Alyssa’s Law — signed by Hochul i...