Florida
Florida already requires the classroom locked when occupied. ClassLock makes it true without a teacher at the door.
Florida is one of two states whose law says what the investigations keep recommending: classrooms are locked to prevent entry while students are inside. The hard part is compliance every period of every day, which is what unannounced inspections check and what a door that locks itself delivers.
The rules
What Florida requires
F.S. 1006.07(6)(f)
Classrooms must be locked to prevent ingress when occupied by students, except between class periods. Gates and access points to the student area are closed and locked from 30 minutes before to 30 minutes after the school day unless actively staffed or behind another locked barrier. Temporary locking devices are allowed only if they can be engaged without opening the door and removed from the egress side without a key. The school safety specialist runs annual unannounced inspections and reports noncompliance quarterly.
SB 1470 (2025)
Effective July 1, 2025, it added the 30‑minute windows, the locked‑barrier alternative, a documented exemption for career‑technical spaces and temporary devices during an active‑assailant incident. The classroom‑locked‑when‑occupied requirement did not change. Rule 6A‑1.0018 was last amended September 23, 2025.
Alyssa's Alert
Every public school implements a mobile panic alert system under 1006.07(4)(c). It is in force. ClassLock takes the lockdown trigger from it and holds every classroom door, then shows which rooms are closed.
Funding
The Safe Schools Allocation in the FEFP is $290 million for 2026‑27, and the 2026‑27 budget carries $20 million for public school hardening. The Office of Safe Schools runs the hardening grant program against each district's risk assessment and hardening‑needs report.
HB 5001 summary · Office of Safe Schools
Who you deal with
The Office of Safe Schools, Florida Department of Education, and your district's school safety specialist.
Where ClassLock fits
Compliance that does not depend on who remembered
The compliance problem
"Locked when occupied" means every room, every period, every day. A mechanical lock relies on the teacher turning it after the bell and on nobody wedging the door for the kid who is late. The inspection is unannounced for exactly that reason.
What ClassLock does
The door is locked from the hallway side by default and opens with a tap for the students scheduled in that room, so late arrivals do not need the door propped. Free egress from inside, always. The door sensor records any door held open, so the safety specialist's inspection has data, not a walk‑through.
Temporary devices
Florida's rule on temporary locking devices, and the 2026 dispute over it, is about add‑on barricades. ClassLock is a listed, fail‑secure electric strike on the existing lever: no device to engage, nothing to remove from the egress side, and first responders enter with a credential or key switch.
Codes, listings and the fire marshal review are on the compliance page. How a manual “locked when occupied” door turns into the knock, the magnet and the window: today’s locks and where they fail.
Pass the inspection every period.
We will scope a ten‑door pilot and a hardening‑grant brief for your district.