Committee keeps public-awareness actions, corrects alert-system name to AlertSense
Sep 3, 2026
Telfair County planners and participants agreed to retain public-awareness items in the updated plan (household preparedness, shelters, radio/social-media alerts) and to standardize references to the county alert platform as AlertSense (earlier transcript used 'Code Red').
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During review of action item 1.1, committee members agreed public-awareness work should remain a core part of the mitigation plan. The list includes emergency-alert subscriptions, household preparedness information, promotion of weather radios, and outreach about shelter locations. Frank Castle asked for corrections to wording where vendors or product names appeared; an attendee clarified the system name as "AlertSense," and Castle said he would update the action item language.
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