Community safety, coordinated.
Alcove gives the people responsible for safety one calm, shared picture: what is happening, where, who is on it, and who needs to know. For school districts, and for the public safety teams, parks, libraries, churches and community partners around them.
- K-12 school districts
- Charter and private schools
- Public safety and campus security
- Parks and recreation
- Libraries
- Churches and community organizations
What Alcove does
Incidents and events, one board
Open an incident in seconds, write the timeline as it happens, assign staff and units, and keep events, drills and field trips beside them on the same board and calendar.
Standard Response Protocol
Hold, Secure, Lockdown, Evacuate and Shelter, started from an incident and shown at once to everyone assigned to the buildings involved, with a sound and a banner.
Live map and units
Buildings, open incidents, areas of interest and units who choose to share their location. Draw an area to see what is inside it and alert the people there.
Mobile View for the field
A phone and tablet screen for units in their vehicles: status at the top, the assigned incident, directions, nearby buildings and their hours, photos and items from the scene.
Reports, items and custody
Incident reports written by the staff who were there, linked by number. Items and evidence keep a chain of custody from the moment they are found.
People and relationships
Students, staff, guardians and partners as one careful record each, with flags, trespass notices and history, seen only by those whose role needs it.
Security, built in from the first line
Safety data is some of the most sensitive information an organization holds. Alcove treats it that way by default, not as an add-on.
- Two-step sign-in for everyoneEvery account uses an authenticator app, with one-time recovery codes. No exceptions for administrators.
- Permissions by role and by buildingOrganizations decide who may do what, and where. Nobody can give a permission they do not hold.
- Need-to-know incidentsEach incident category goes to the roles that handle it; names, narrative and private notes are separate parts with separate access.
- Everything recordedEvery sign-in (with its address and browser) and every change goes in an audit log that is never rewritten.
- You decide when Aphys can lookAphys staff see nothing in your organization unless you grant time-limited support access (seven days at most), and everything they do is recorded.
- Encrypted in transitAlcove is served over HTTPS, so what travels between a device and Alcove is encrypted.
- Encrypted exit fileIf you leave, your data is handed to you as one file encrypted with AES-256-GCM, then deleted from Alcove after 90 days.
- Passwords never storedOnly one-way bcrypt hashes of passwords are kept, and sign-in sessions are stored as hashes too. Sessions end after 12 hours, sooner if you choose an idle sign-out.
- Photos without hidden location dataLocation and camera details are stripped from photos before they are saved.
- Live locations are never storedSharing a location is a choice, shown live only. Trails are kept only when asked for, and erased automatically.
- Optional sign-in limitsAllow sign-ins only from your own network ranges or from approved devices.
- Screen watermarkEach screen can carry the viewer's name and organization, so a photo of it names its source.
We say "encrypted" only where it is true today: in transit and in the exit file.
Built with real-world experience
Alcove is designed by a working school-district emergency manager, around the way coordinators, principals, security officers and mobile patrols actually work: radio calls, drills that run long, a lockdown that has to reach the right building in seconds, and the paperwork afterwards.
It is reviewed screen by screen by the people it is for, and changed in small, careful steps.
Your data stays yours
Your organization owns what it puts in Alcove. Your Org Admin controls who can see it, and can download an organization's data. If you ever leave, you get it all back in one encrypted file, and after 90 days it is gone from Alcove for good.
Alcove has no advertising and loads no tracking scripts.
See it for yourself
The demo runs in your browser with a small fictional district: the incident board, an incident's timeline and units changing status. Nothing you do there is saved.