City of Galion transitions to the CodeRED mass notification service

City of Galion tran­si­tions to the CodeRED mass noti­fi­ca­tion service

The City of Galion has a new emer­gency mass noti­fi­ca­tion provider. The tran­si­tion to Emer­gency Com­mu­ni­ca­tions Network’s (ECN) CodeRED mass noti­fi­ca­tion solu­tion from One Call Now began ear­lier this month. ECN recently acquired all One Call Now’s Gov­ern­ment Emer­gency Center/911 clients.

The tran­si­tion from One Call Now to CodeRED will offer Galion access to unique, web-based fea­tures that were not avail­able with the pre­vi­ous provider. Emer­gency man­agers in Galion will be able to more effec­tively com­mu­ni­cate time-sensitive mes­sages using ECN’s robust dial­ing infra­struc­ture that is entirely man­aged by ECN, allow­ing calls to be deliv­ered sec­onds after Galion offi­cials launch a message.

Galion res­i­dents who reg­is­tered with OCN have been trans­ferred to the new CodRED sys­tem. How­ever, cit­i­zens are encour­aged to go to the web­site and reg­is­ter their cur­rent con­tact infor­ma­tion, includ­ing cell phone num­bers, busi­ness and home tele­phones, as well as email addresses and text addresses where they would like to receive noti­fi­ca­tions, through the system’s Cit­i­zen Enroll­ment Noti­fi­ca­tion page. Although res­i­dents are guar­an­teed to receive emer­gency noti­fi­ca­tions upon enroll­ment, they may opt-out of receiv­ing a vari­ety of other gen­eral noti­fi­ca­tions that may include road work and com­mu­nity announce­ments. To ensure you are included in the new CodeRED data­base, please visit the City of Galion’s web­site at www.ci.galion.oh.us or find the Galion Police Depart­ment Face­book page and reg­is­ter your information

“We look for­ward to using the many new fea­tures we have with CodeRED, and are pleased that our con­tract was tran­si­tioned to a well-known and highly rep­utable mass noti­fi­ca­tion provider,” said Brian Sater­field, Chief of Police of Galion.

As a new fea­ture, the City of Galion will also send noti­fi­ca­tions to CodeRED Mobile Alert app sub­scribers. The Mobile Alert app pro­vides users geo-based pub­lic safety alerts that impact them at their cur­rent loca­tion. The app pro­vides an addi­tional method for the City of Galion to com­mu­ni­cate mes­sages to not only local res­i­dents, but also to those trav­el­ing through the area. “Once you sign up, even if you travel to another CodeRED com­mu­nity, you will be able to access those alerts as well,” Sater­field said. “This is a really use­ful and unique fea­ture that we are excited to begin using in the near future,” he added.

About Emer­gency Com­mu­ni­ca­tions Network

Head­quar­tered in Ormond Beach, Fla., Emer­gency Com­mu­ni­ca­tions Net­work, LLC (ECN) has pio­neered high-speed emer­gency noti­fi­ca­tion ser­vices capa­ble of reach­ing mil­lions of cit­i­zens in min­utes. ECN’s sophis­ti­cated net­work sup­ports a web-based prod­uct suite fea­tur­ing four major ser­vices: CodeRED which enables local gov­ern­ment offi­cials to com­mu­ni­cate time-sensitive per­son­al­ized mes­sages via voice, email and text mes­sag­ing; Code RED Weather Warn­ing which pro­vides auto­mated alerts to cit­i­zens in the path of severe weather just moments after a warn­ing has been issued by the National Weather Ser­vice; My Daily Call for sched­ul­ing calls to check on at-risk indi­vid­u­als, includ­ing the elderly, infirm and latchkey kids; and CodED for use by school sys­tems to improve com­mu­ni­ca­tions with their com­mu­ni­ties. To learn more, visit www.ecnetwork.com.

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