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Court hears presentation on county alert app and next steps for outreach
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Summary
Staff described an emergency-notification app that can send severe-weather, evacuation, workplace-violence and law-enforcement alerts; presenters said vendor assistance and training will be needed and that community adoption will be voluntary.
A presenter (S6) described an emergency-notification platform the county could use to send alerts for workplace violence, active shooters, severe weather, evacuations and suspicious activity, and to provide law-enforcement messaging. "It gives evacuation instructions, regional emergencies, criminal suspicious activities, and, you know, law enforcement as well," S6 said.
The presenter said users would need to download the app to receive notifications and that the platform would require training and certification. He said the vendor (referred to in the transcript as Regroup or similar) would work with the state to help obtain necessary certification.
Discussion and outreach: Chair (S3) and other members discussed the need to push community outreach to encourage voluntary adoption. S6 said he did not know whether overlapping community apps would duplicate messages in areas where multiple apps operate.
Next steps: Staff recommended outreach and training to implement the platform; the transcript does not record a final decision or procurement action in the provided excerpts.
