St. Clair County Select Alert is
an innovated solution for improving communications between government agencies,
volunteer organizations, businesses, and the citizens of St. Clair County.
Select Alert is a notification system that sends coordinated information to multiple
communication devices simultaneously. Currently Select Alert can deliver information
to telephones, cell phones, emails, pagers, and fax machines. It also includes
those for the hearing impaired as described in the Americans with Disabilities Act
(ADA).
The benefits and the efficiencies
of a system like Select Alert are tremendous. In the event of an emergency,
St. Clair County not only has the ability to send rapid emergency notification to
affected areas. The system also allows the sharing of information with the media,
volunteer organizations and other government agencies in a timely manner.
Some benefits are:
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Announce emergencies or routine information easily
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Notify customers of service interruptions
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Amber Alert information.
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Serves Special Needs population.
Select Alert gives the citizens of
St. Clair County the ability to opt in/opt-out capabilities. Citizens choose
the method to receive information based on their personal preferences. By
signing up on the St. Clair County website a citizen will create a customize profile
choosing what they would like to be notified about such as water systems information,
community crime information, road closures, emergency information, and other service
related information and how they would be notified. At any time a citizen
chooses remove themselves from the system they simply return to the website and
remove their name.
Login to SelectAlert