...Starting soon, campus police departments at some area schools will support the Campus Guardian Emergency Notification system...Brown has been working with Campus Guardian for over a year and a half, said Mark Porter, director of public safety and chief of police...

...The Campus Guardian Emergency Notification system, a project that began in 2003, won the 2007 Rhode Island Business Plan competition. The award was based on the "commercial potential of the business," according to Peter Lowy, business manager for the competition...

...Students who download Campus Guardian's software onto their cell phones - currently only Sprint phones are supported - can choose to have the program either automatically turn on or turn on only when they want...

...Even in the face of a subpoena, Glier said, students' locations will be protected... "Part of the technology in the cell phone software is software that allows the cell phone to remain autonomous … without sending the location information back to campus security."

...According to Glier, the Campus Guardian's cell phone technology is popular. "We've received interest from virtually every school we've talked to," he said...

Full Story: Scared of the dark? Schools look to GPS phones for comfort Source: Brown Daily Herald, February 6th, 2008 Author: Rachel Arndt Added on February 6th, 2008 at 12:21 pm, by Judy He