New York Governor Kathy Hochul on Thursday signed a new law requiring retailers to boost safety protections for store workers, including requiring major chains to add panic buttons in all New York ...

This article originally appeared on Rochester Democrat and Chronicle: NY enacts panic button law despite retailer pushback People shop for school supplies inside a Walmart in Edmond, Okla ...

From the legislation: “‘Panic button’ means a physical button installed in easily accessible locations throughout the workplace, or a wearable, or mobile phone-based button that when pressed ...

The city will spend $1.6 million to put panic buttons in hundreds of bodegas after a string of recent violent deli incidents, Mayor Eric Adams announced Sunday. Up to 500 of the devices will be ...

One week after staff members at Apalachee High School were outfitted with wearable panic buttons for the new school year, the devices were used to alert law enforcement of the shooting that ...

Retail workers hail New York’s new panic-button law But the bill signed by Gov. Kathy Hochul, which requires a host of safety measures to address store-based crime, was opposed by key trade groups.

The United Bodegas Workers of America are renewing urgent calls for ‘life-saving’ panic buttons and real-time NYPD monitoring in every corner store across the city after two violent inc… ...

Reuters. FILE PHOTO: Toiletries are locked behind plexiglass in a store in New York, U.S., November 17, 2022. REUTERS/Arriana McLymore/File Photo ...

Here's what to know. What does the newly passed NY retail safety law require? In a certain section of the act, access to panic buttons in New York locations of retail stores with 500 or more ...