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Stevens County rolls out Regroup emergency-alert system after vendor cyber incident
Summary
Stevens County officials briefed the board on replacing their previous IPAWS partner with Regroup, citing a cyber incident that cut certificate sharing with FEMA, estimated three-year savings above $10,000, and a Dec. 2–3 launch with about 3,500 registrants to date.
Stevens County officials told commissioners they have moved the county’s emergency notification system to Regroup after the previous vendor lost FEMA certificate access following a late-2025 cyber incident. Donna Greiner, who briefed the board, said the county worked with Sheriff Dingman to terminate the older contract and set up a multi-county Regroup deployment with Swift, Polk, Grant and Traverse counties to lower costs and improve interoperability.
Greiner said the three-year Regroup contract will save the county “over…
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