Sedgwick County Emergency Management has expanded its new email and phone alert system to cover the entire county.
Civic Ready Alert began in January for Wichita and Mt. Hope, but now it’s available to all other cities in the county, with the exception of Derby. Residents of Derby are encouraged to sign up with that city’s own program, called Notify Me, which has its own web page.
People can sign up for Civic Ready Alert on the Sedgwick County web page, through the Emergency Management department. Operations Officer Cody Charvat said people are encouraged to fill in all the information, to make the system able to notify them. The system will send out messages for community events, public health alerts, public safety alerts and health alerts. The system is free and voluntary.
