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What is the FortifyFL App?
What is the FortifyFL App?
FortifyFL App is Live!
We are pleased to announce that the FortifyFL app is LIVE. Now, any student, educator, parent, or member of the public can report school safety concerns directly to law enforcement and school administrators anonymously and easily through the FortifyFL app or FortifyFL website
The app, which is available for download on Apple and Android mobile devices, is critical to ensuring all Florida schools are safe environments where students and educators can experience and share the joy of learning without fear. We hope that you will become familiar with this tool and help us spread the word about it with our students and their families.
Please note that the official app’s logo will look exactly as it does in the graphic.
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Jimmy Williams
Chief of Safety & Security
850-487-7117
williamsj18@leonschools.net
District Security Center
3420 West Tharpe St.
Tallahassee, FL 32303
Phone: (850) 617-5979
Fax: (850) 617-5992
School Resources
Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School Public Safety Act
In the wake of the tragic shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School that took the lives of 17 Florida students and educators, the Florida Legislature passed and Governor Rick Scott signed SB 7026, the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School Public Safety Act. This legislation outlines significant reforms to make Florida schools safer while keeping firearms out of the hands of mentally ill and dangerous individuals.
Provisions of the law include:
- Creation of the Office of Safe Schools and a description of the office’s responsibilities
- Allowing sheriffs to establish a Coach Aaron Feis Guardian Program
- The FortifyFL mobile suspicious activity reporting tool
- Establishment of the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School Public Safety Commission
- New requirements for mental health services and training
- Requirements for a safe-school officer at each public school
- School safety assessments for each public school
- Appropriations of funding to address identified school safety needs
- Public Safety Chapter 2018-3, Laws of Florida
- DOE Bill Summary of SB 7026 (PDF)
The FortifyFL App was developed in coordination with the following Educational and Law Enforcement Agencies
Important Notice
Florida Statute 943.082 states that if, following an investigation, it is determined that a person knowingly submitted a false tip through FortifyFL, the Internet protocol (IP) address of the device on which the tip was submitted will be provided to law enforcement agencies for further investigation, and the reporting party may be subject to criminal penalties under s. 837.05. In all other circumstances, unless the reporting party has chosen to disclose his or her identity, the report will remain anonymous.