Alerts, reporting & public safety
Getting the right warning to the right people, and taking reports that matter.
Alerts are delivered by configured trigger, recipient permission and incident priority, under appropriate oversight. They cover critical medical incidents, public-safety concerns, active-attacker and other major emergency alerts, bomb threats and explosions, fires, evacuation and shelter-in-place notices, missing or endangered persons, hazardous-material incidents, severe weather, flooding and other environmental threats, and road closures or other safety conditions.
Alongside emergency reporting, See It — Say It gives the public a way to raise a concern before it becomes an incident: a possible threat, a welfare concern, a substance-related crisis, abuse, exploitation, or anything else that may need appropriate intervention. Concerns can be submitted to dispatch without an account, and are reviewed by people, not acted on automatically.
A report is not the same as a dispatch. Routine safety reporting is reviewed and routed; a notice created in the app is not a guarantee that a unit is on the way.
The platform supports 911 and never replaces it. For an immediate emergency, call 911 first.
- Active attackers and active-shooter incidents
- Bomb threats and explosions
- Shelter-in-place and evacuation orders
- Missing, runaway or endangered persons
- Structure, wildfire and brush fires
- Hazardous-materials incidents
- Severe weather, geological hazards, road closures and air-quality alerts
- Other critical law-enforcement and public-safety events
- Guided by established triggers and priority assessments, with human oversight so notifications fit the situation
See It, Say It addresses warning signs and safety concerns that go unnoticed, unreported or unaddressed — mental-health crises, substance abuse, child abuse, physical, domestic or sexual abuse, exploitation, threats to safety and welfare concerns — and connects them to the right people before situations escalate.
Reports go straight to law enforcement, social services, crisis teams and EMS. Comparable programs work: Say Something by Sandy Hook Promise reports 1,361 juveniles saved from suicide, 8,700+ helped in a crisis, 20 planned school shootings prevented and 421,000+ tips (figures as cited in the project presentation).
Includes non-emergency numbers and 911-failure backups configured per community.
The detail behind it
6 sectionsOpen any one to read it.Alerting is deliberately narrow: the right warning to the right people, under the community's own policy, with the reach decided by the incident's own classification rather than by whoever is sending it.
- Public-safety conditions — active threat, bomb threat, fire, evacuation, shelter-in-place, road closure
- Hazard warnings from the issuing authority, recorded and shown as issued
- Missing, runaway or endangered persons
- Hazardous-material incidents and environmental threats
- Non-emergency community notices that a community chooses to push
Everything here describes the platform as built, subject to the configuration decisions of the community or agency using it.
Free for the people who need it, anywhere it runs.
It is not tied to one town or one county: a department, agency or community anywhere in the country or the world can run it. Residents are never charged. Departments pay for the parts they use, and donations let us put more resources into a community that could not otherwise afford them.
- · Defibrillators, naloxone and bleeding-control kits
- · Guides, voice instructions and training material
- · Mapping the equipment a community already has
Questions, corrections, or a resource we have missed — reach the team directly.