Gallatin County has implemented a new mass notification system for our community to help ensure we get important information to you when you need it. We are calling this tool the Community Notification System and it is provided by a long standing alerting company named Everbridge . With this new system comes a lot of new options for emergency officials to quickly provide information to the community, however many of these new methods require you to opt in (a.k.a. give us the information on how to contact you). To educate our community about the need for people to register to receive alerts we are launching the “ If we can’t REACH you, we can’t ALERT you! ” campaign.

The Details

When people visit the registration page they will be asked a series of questions. Sometimes people wonder why all this information matters when they just want to be alerted. Basically, the better the information we have the more accurate we can target our alerts to those who need the information. In the Community Notification System you can enter a bunch of different contact methods from phone numbers, text messages, emails, apps and more – however it’s up to you to tell us how you prefer to be notified. You will also be asked for at least one address and can enter more. When we send alerts, we notify those who are affected instead of everyone in the county – the addresses you provide tell us what locations matter to you (don’t forget to add things like parents and work addresses). We also give you the opportunity to provide optional information so we can further focus the message. These are things like if you have livestock or are mobility impaired. Once again this allows us to target messages to those affected by an incident that may have certain needs – like a place to relocate their livestock only to people with livestock.

The key here is the better the information you provide us, the better we will be able to provide information to you in an emergency. Visit alerts.readygallatin.com for more information and to register.