Changes Coming To Shoreline Emergency Alerts

From The City of Shoreline: The following is a message from Alert Shoreline, the City of Shoreline's mass communication system:

Changes to ALERT Shoreline

We are changing how we deliver our emergency alerts and community alerts. All emergency alerts, including road closures, will now come from the ALERT King County emergency notification system. All our community alerts, such as Council meeting agendas, project updates, and neighborhood news will come from our website’s e-notification system.

What does this mean for you?

Hopefully, not much. If you are currently signed up to receive alerts through ALERT Shoreline, your information has been transferred to the new communication systems. You will continue to receive alerts as before.

However, if you want to change your emergency alert preferences, you will need to create a managed account in the ALERT King County system.

If you want to change your community alert preferences, you will click on the “Change eNotification Preferences” on the ALERT Shoreline page. (Instructions attached.)

Why are we making the switch?

King County is offering cities in King County the opportunity to piggyback onto their emergency communications system operated by Code Red for free. By making the switch, we will be able to save $18,000 a year. In addition, by piggybacking onto King County’s system, King County Emergency Management will be able to send out emergency notifications on our behalf if Shoreline staff are unable to do so. Also, King County Sheriff’s Department currently uses Code Red to send out alerts. Since we contract with the Sheriff’s department for police services, King County dispatchers will now be able to send out alerts on behalf of Shoreline Police, freeing our police to address the situation at hand and not have to worry about sending out their own alert.

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