KTLA News
4-year-old left after a morning carpool dies in a hot car
Valley Village, CA · May 2026
A Team Protect Campaign
Is Your Child There?
Preventing hot-car deaths through attendance-alert systems for schools, camps & daycares.
Take the Pledge.Bridging the gaps in child-safety communication.
It has happened — to careful, loving families. The technology to prevent it already exists.
How you can help
Most parents and schools think it can't happen to them. Let's prove them right.
The Pledge for Parents & Community Members
Help protect the children in your school, camp & daycare
Add your name to the pledge, and ask the programs your kids attend to put attendance-alert protections in place.
Take this pledge →The Pledge for Schools, Camps & Daycares
Put rapid-alert attendance protocols in place
Implement a system that flags an unaccounted-for child and notifies parents within minutes — before a momentary lapse becomes a tragedy.
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Recent headlines
It's in the news every year.
Real headlines. Real children.
Asbury Park Press
Baby dies after hours in a car outside a Lakewood yeshiva
Lakewood, NJ · March 2025
Israel National News
Toddler left in a car in Dimona dies at the hospital
Dimona, Israel · September 2025
FOX Weather
Three children die in hot cars in three states in a single day
Across the U.S. · May 2026
Yeshiva World News
Toddler found alive in a locked camp van after 45 minutes
Staten Island, NY · June 2026
COLlive
An attendance alert caught a child asleep on the carpool bus
Miami, FL · April 2026
Drawn from real, published news coverage.
On average, every
9
days a child dies in a hot car in the U.S.
A car heats up
+20°F
in just 10 minutes.
It threatens
100%
of families — no one is immune.
The technology
Awareness isn't enough.
These aren't careless parents — it's a momentary lapse. Attendance-alert systems are built to catch exactly that, and several providers offer them to schools and camps at a discount.
READ: How an attendance alert system saved a child in FloridaOne oversight changes everything.
One pledge can save our children.
Take the pledge
Add Your Name
Parent, community member, or a leader at a school, daycare, or camp — pick your pledge:
"Our school, preschool, daycare, or camp commits to exploring and implementing an attendance safety technology to ensure that every child is accounted for, every single day."
"I pledge to advocate for my child's school, preschool, daycare, or camp to implement an attendance alert system, and to always check the backseat so that no child is ever left unaccounted for."
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