Turn every classroom into a saferoom with a flip

In April 2019, Anna Reger got a text that her daughter’s school was under an active-threat alert. Two questions changed everything: how do we protect our kids — and why isn’t there an easier way?

With her husband John, an inventor and father of six, she spoke with law enforcement, teachers, and administrators nationwide and found there was no universal, easy-to-use secondary classroom lock. So they built one.