TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (WTXL) - Florida officials have announced the launch of Fortify Florida, a suspicious activity reporting app available to students across the state.
Attorney General Pam Bondi, along with Florida Department of Law Enforcement Commissioner Rick Swearingen and Florida Department of Education Commissioner Pam Stewart, announced the launch of the app on Monday.
"After Parkland, I made it my mission to ensure that when students provide information that could potentially save lives," Bondi said, "there would be a centralized tool they could use to quickly send that information to the right authorities. FortifyFL is designed to do just that."
During the final weeks of the 2018 Legislative Session, Bondi worked to have language included in the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School Public Safety Act to fund the development of a mobile suspicious-activity reporting tool.
The app allows students and the community to relay information anonymously concerning unsafe, potentially harmful, dangerous, violent, or criminal activities, or the threat of these activities, to appropriate public safety agencies and school officials.
Bondi worked with students from Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School to name the app and create a logo. The students chose the name FortifyFL as the purpose of the app truly represents the definition of the word fortify - to strengthen and protect against attack.
The platform can be used by students of any grade level as well as parents, teachers and law enforcement.
The FortifyFL app is available for download in the Apple App Store and Google Play. Tips can also be submitted online at GetFortifyFL.com.
