Carroll County has emergency alert systems through Carroll County Sheriff. Sign up for these alerts here to be notified of threats to our community, road closures, traffic threats.
Frequently Asked Questions About Carroll County Sheriff Office Alerts!
(from carrollcountysheriff.org)
Carroll County residents, business owners, and taxpayers can register by clicking here. Enter your phone number (landline, mobile/ cellular, VOIP), email address and/or text/SMS number. You will receive a text confirming that you have opted into the alert system to receive emergency notifications. Your registration information is private and will not be shared.
There is no cost for an individual who has registered for the alerts; however, your cell phone carrier might charge you to receive text messages, so please check your plan.
You will only receive emergency notifications, severe weather warnings and other county notices. You can choose to have a voice message, a text message to your cell phone or PDA, or an email address.
Yes, our County service provider works with all major cellular phone providers. Text messages will be sent to your carrier for delivery to your phone. While it is extremely unlikely that you would not receive an alert message, signal strength and other issues with your carrier could impact delivery to your phone.
No. Inspiron Logistics, the company behind the Wireless Emergency Notification System (WENS) does not tolerate spam text or email messages. Inspiron Logistics maintains an anti-spam policy as part of the compliance to operat with Tier 1 provisioning with all of the major North American carriers. Tier 1 provisioning is only granted to top emergency officials and the WENS system. This means that when the mobile networks are completely congested, the only messages allowed to go through are those with Tier 1 provisioning as a matter of priority.
Yes. There are two ways to do this:
- You may register as one voice phone number with multiple cellular numbers for text alerts and email's or
- You can individually register so that all of your phone numbers receive a voice message and a text message. You can only have one phone number for the voice message per subscriber. It is flexible and easily expandable to meet your particular emergency notification needs.
CCSO Alerts! will send one voice message to each person who signs up, (aka subscriber). It will send multiple text messages to that one subscriber using a cellular phone number, or email address. You will see many devices listed on the sign-up page.
Yes, when you sign up online, fill in your email address in the proper field. You will be sent your emergency notification through the email address that you registered.
- All cellular phones, including private numbers.
- All landline phones, including unlisted numbers.
- All VOIP phones, including unlisted numbers.
- Cellular phones with text capabilities
- Any carrier Blackberry-IPhone-PDA's
- Email accounts with any service provider (Yahoo, MSN, Hotmail, Google, etc...)
Nothing will change. You will still receive CCSO Alerts! as long as you have the same phone number.
You will need to re-register so that you can resume receiving CCSO Alerts! notifications.
There are a few ways to cancel it:
- Click here and complete the form or send email.
- You can simply text STOP to 69310 from your phone.
Simply call 330-627-0003 to sign up for CCSO Alerts! to have it done for you.