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Public Safety Committee reviews move from Code Red to CivicPlus ahead of August renewal
Summary
The Public Safety Committee examined the city's reliance on the Code Red emergency-notification system and discussed switching to CivicPlus, which staff said would integrate with the city website, allow direct city control of alerts and require a transition plan before an August subscription renewal.
Terry Goodwin, chair of the Public Safety Committee, opened the May 12 meeting by announcing the only substantive agenda item was a review of the city's Code Red emergency-notification system and invited staff to explain options.
Jesse Ekenrath, the city's chief of operations, said the city is currently subscribed to Code Red for weather and other public-safety alerts but that Code Red experienced a data breach and its migration to a new platform has produced inconsistent delivery. "Code Red has it had a a data breach a little while ago, so they switched onto a new platform, and the new platform just hasn't been consistent for us," Ekenrath said, adding that the last couple of weather alerts "didn't go out to everyone on the platform."
Ekenrath told the committee staff have evaluated…
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