Nixle

Technology must be utilized by municipal agencies to help connect communities. Our citizens can and do utilize technology and are already online and on-phone with or without us and they want to know what's happening near them. They're inundated with information from a variety of sources (traditional media, the internet, social networking sites, etc.)- but the quantity of information does not correlate to quality of information. With Nixle our local agencies can communicate with the people they serve timely, effective, and trusted information. The Nixle platform gives us a secure, easy-to-use, and effective system to share relevant information with Henry County residents about the neighborhoods where they work, live, and visit.

As a Communications Solution

• Nixle is a reliable tool that provides a platform for direct communications between municipalities/police departments/educational institutions and citizens.
• Agencies can send information on multiple platforms (text message, email, web), filling a critical emergency notification need.
• Residents register by providing their address or an intersection near them, a cell phone number and an email address by which to receive notifications from official agencies. Citizens then choose which messages they receive on which devices. It's information they know they can trust.
• Messages can be transmitted anywhere in a radius from.25 miles to 10 miles, allowing neighborhood-level, time-sensitive information to be sent only to affected citizens.
• Nixle's Community Information Service free to residents who access the notifications by email and online at Nixle website. Information received via SMS/text message is received as part of their text-messaging plan.

Anonymous Tipping

Nixle's Tip Watch allows residents to proactively connect with your agency by submitting anonymous tips through text and web messaging. Additionally, Nixle's Tip Watch provides law enforcement with a two-way, anonymous connection with tipsters to help gather more information.

Residents can send tips to a Keyword using any of the following methods:

• Text message tipping allows residents to easily and anonymously submit tips from their mobile devices.
• Residents can respond directly to your Nixle text messages with a tip, and Nixle emails and web messages will include a link to your agency's anonymous tipping web form.

Nixle Details

• Nixle is a secure and authenticated system. An agency's primary administrator must undergo a rigorous identification process to be allowed access to the system
• For law enforcement, Nixle enables community-policing outreach in new ways. Building a communications structure can help solve crimes, build safer communities, and promote a positive dialogue/partnership between residents and law enforcement
• Nixle has been used around the country to help find missing seniors, evacuate flooded areas, and capture dangerous criminals shortly after a crime has happened. The power in the system is also its diversity of content, allowing not only those emergency alerts, but informing residents of road closures, city parades, government meetings, and other want to know information.

Sign Up

Text the Keyword of the group you want to follow to 888777. You can sign up to receive information from as many as you want.