CodeRED – Emergency Communications Service
Whether your city is large or small, CodeRED will work for you. If you need to evacuate an area, notify citizens of closed roads or the need to boil water, prepare for a weather emergency, search for a missing child, or notify every convenience store in town of an armed robbery, CodeRED’s patented, web-enabled technology can deliver the message at record speed – connecting to 60,000 households an hour.
More than 500 cities and counties in the United States (and more than 50 in Texas) are covered under the CodeRED umbrella. Here are a few examples of how CodeRED is being used in Texas:
- Corinth - CodeRED was used to locate the owner of a stray dog that had bitten a little boy. The boy was scheduled to receive a series of painful rabies shots. The city decided to call a ¼-mile radius with a description of the dog, time of day, etc. Within two minutes, the owner of the dog received the call and contacted city hall. The dog was identified-no rabies shots!
- Colleyville - CodeRED was used to notify citizens of a town hall meeting that had been scheduled to discuss a series of violent home invasions. It was the most attended town hall meeting in the history of Colleyville. Ironically, the four local news stations ran a story on Colleyville’s new, high-speed notification system and not a story on the violent home invasions. A few days later the criminals were caught.
- Cedar Hill - The city was housing several hundred Hurricane Katrina evacuees at the Mount Lebanon Encampment. The city launched a CodeRED call, asking citizens to bring food, water, clothing, blankets, etc., to city hall. So many people responded, the city had a hard time managing all of the items being brought to city hall.
CodeRED requires no setup fees, and there’s no equipment to purchase. You create and maintain the call lists you need online. You can even contact cell phones and pagers.
Brian Davis
BDA Consulting Group
209 Pecan
Hollow
Suite 104
Coppell, TX 75019
214-476-3430
smartgov@sbcglobal.net
Kyle Jung
Program Development Department
Texas Municipal League
512-231-7400
kjung@tml.org
