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City of Jonesboro to use RAVE Panic Button

The Jonesboro City Hall is the first municipal building in the state to try a program of emergency response that is currently in all of the state’s schools.  The RAVE Panic Button will be implemented in the city hall this month and is being used as a pilot program.  Jonesboro Police Chief Rick Elliot explains what the Panic Button is:

Elliot tells KASU news Jonesboro is the first city in the state to try the program in a municipal building:

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The RAVE Panic Button was approved by the Jonesboro City Council’s Public Safety Committee last night.

Johnathan Reaves is the News Director for KASU Public Radio. As part of an Air Force Family, he moved to Arkansas from Minot, North Dakota in 1986. He was first bitten by the radio bug after he graduated from Gosnell High School in 1992. While working on his undergraduate degree, he worked at KOSE, a small 1,000 watt AM commercial station in Osceola, Arkansas. Upon graduation from Arkansas State University in 1996 with a degree in Radio-Television Broadcast News, he decided that he wanted to stay in radio news. He moved to Stuttgart, Arkansas and worked for East Arkansas Broadcasters as news director and was there for 16 years.