Locally Grown Northfield » CodeRED http://locallygrownnorthfield.org The people, issues, and events of Northfield, MN Thu, 24 May 2012 12:52:41 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Podcast: Deputy Police Chief Chuck Walerius on the April 15 CodeRed test (sign up now) http://locallygrownnorthfield.org/post/16379/ http://locallygrownnorthfield.org/post/16379/#comments Tue, 23 Mar 2010 15:55:23 +0000 Griff Wigley http://locallygrownnorthfield.org/post/16379/ Our guest this week was Northfield Deputy Police Chief Chuck Walerius, talking about the new CodeRed emergency notification system for Rice and Steele counties (brochure/FAQ PDF) and the test of the system coming up on April 15.

You can sign up now so that the system alerts you via landline phone, cell

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]]> Chuck Walerius, Tracy Davis, Griff Wigleycodered-brochure-sshot Our guest this week was Northfield Deputy Police Chief Chuck Walerius, talking about the new CodeRed emergency notification system for Rice and Steele counties (brochure/FAQ PDF) and the test of the system coming up on April 15.

You can sign up now so that the system alerts you via landline phone, cell phone, text message and email. Just visit either the City of Northfield Police Dept. page or the Emergency info page and click on the CodeRed logo/link. You’ll be sent to a special Rice/Steele page on the CodeRed.com website. (I’m deliberately not linking to it from here in case the URL changes.)


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]]> http://locallygrownnorthfield.org/post/16379/feed/ 17 Keeping CodeRED a secret: two months and counting http://locallygrownnorthfield.org/post/14689/ http://locallygrownnorthfield.org/post/14689/#comments Sat, 12 Dec 2009 14:54:36 +0000 Griff Wigley http://locallygrownnorthfield.org/post/14689/ There’s an article in Wednesday’s Nfld News titled Police upgrade emergency message system and an editorial today titled CodeRED should add weather alerts.

But a search of the City’s web site for the word ‘CodeRed’ brings up “Sorry, no data matching the query "codered " were found.”

It gets worse.

The

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]]> codered-sshotThere’s an article in Wednesday’s Nfld News titled Police upgrade emergency message system and an editorial today titled CodeRED should add weather alerts.

But a search of the City’s web site for the word ‘CodeRed’ brings up “Sorry, no data matching the query "codered " were found.”

It gets worse.

The City of Northfield’s Emergency Information page makes no mention of it.

A Google search of the City of Northfield’s website for the two-word phrase “code red” only shows an 8/14/2009 disbursement to the Steele County Treasurer for $3000.

A Google search of the city’s site on the word ‘CodeRED’ only finds the logo on the Police Dept. web page. No explanatory text, just a logo, linked to the service.

A search for ‘CodeRED’ on the KYMN site comes up empty.

Steele County has an Oct. 1 press release on CodeRED indicating that the publicity blitz for this new service began two months ago.

A search of the City of Lonsdale’s website brings up an 8-page Code Red Public Relations Plan (PDF) that was implemented in early October. They also have a CodeRED flyer with a helpful FAQ (PDF).

Why is Northfield so bad at getting the word out?

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