GeoComm and SchoolDog Partner to Strengthen School Safety Preparedness

Partnership brings public safety grade location intelligence and everyday district safety practices into a shared focus on preparedness and informed action.

ST. CLOUD, Minn. and CARROLLTON, Ga., Oct. 29, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- GeoComm and SchoolDog today announced a partnership focused on helping K–12 districts strengthen school safety preparedness. The collaboration brings together GeoComm's indoor and outdoor mapping expertise and SchoolDog's district safety platform, aligning two essential parts of school safety: understanding the places where people learn and work, and supporting the daily practices that help keep those environments safe.

For district leaders, preparedness extends beyond developing an emergency plan. It includes recognizing vulnerabilities, communicating concerns, assigning follow-up, and making sure the people responsible for action have useful information. Those responsibilities span administrators, facilities personnel, school safety teams, and emergency responders. The partnership reflects a shared commitment to helping districts approach those responsibilities with clearer context and coordination.

"School safety depends on people having the information they need to act with confidence," said Rose Bentley, Chief Operating Officer of GeoComm. "SchoolDog understands the daily responsibilities school leaders carry. By bringing our location intelligence expertise into this relationship, we can help connect that operational understanding with a clearer picture of school buildings and campuses, supporting preparedness before an incident and informed decisions when circumstances change."

SchoolDog was created by experienced K–12 leaders, including a former superintendent, to address the human side of school safety. Its platform helps staff document observations during routine activities, conduct safety walks, manage Emergency Operations Plans, and connect facilities concerns with work orders. By bringing these activities into everyday routines, SchoolDog aims to help administrators build consistent safety habits without creating unnecessary administrative work.

That focus on follow-through matters because identifying a concern is only the beginning. A damaged door, a blocked passage, or another observed hazard needs to reach the people responsible for addressing it. SchoolDog connects reporting with facilities workflows so districts can move from an observation to assigned action and track the concern through resolution. District-level visibility also helps leaders recognize patterns and determine where additional attention may be needed.

"School leaders have so many daily responsibilities, and no one person has the time or expertise to lead school safety all by themselves," said Robert "Buddy" Costley, Co-Founder and CEO of SchoolDog. "We built SchoolDog to help them build and celebrate a team approach to school safety and laser in on what is going well and what needs improvement. This new relationship with GeoComm and its state-of-the-art mapping capacity will significantly aid these leaders in connecting their daily vigilance with a better understanding of how their campuses intersect with the lives who learn and work inside them."

GeoComm contributes the foundational location context that helps people understand school buildings and campuses. Its public safety grade mapping turns floor plans and building information into structured location data, including rooms, doors, exits, and relevant points of interest. This information provides a clearer picture of physical spaces for preparedness and critical operations, helping users communicate about specific places with greater precision.

The value of the partnership lies in connecting these complementary perspectives. SchoolDog focuses on the people and processes that identify concerns and sustain safety practices. GeoComm focuses on the location information that gives those activities physical context. Aligning those strengths creates a foundation for helping districts consider safety observations, building information, and preparedness as related parts of their operations.

About GeoComm

GeoComm provides public safety grade location data and maps that technology partners embed to bring operational context and trusted location intelligence into critical workflows. Through indoor and outdoor mapping, flexible integrations, and actively maintained data, GeoComm helps partners strengthen their platforms with better operational context and shared situational awareness. Together, these capabilities help partners deliver the shared operational picture agencies, organizations, and responders need, supporting faster, more informed decisions across critical operations. Learn more at geocomm.com

About SchoolDog

SchoolDog Solutions, Inc. is a K-12 school safety software company based in Carrollton, Georgia. It was co-founded in 2024 by a retired Georgia superintendent with 11 years in that role, and its leadership team is made up of former district leaders. SchoolDog serves school districts across Georgia, Alabama, South Carolina, and Arkansas. That includes all 137 public school districts in Alabama, through a statewide partnership with the Alabama State Department of Education. SchoolDog's cloud-based platform helps districts manage emergency operations plans, record drills and training, run digital safety walks and inspections, and turn safety concerns into maintenance work orders. By making safety part of everyday work, SchoolDog helps schools build a lasting culture of vigilance. Learn more at schooldog.solutions

SOURCE GeoComm, Inc