Ansonia Residents And Businesses: Sign Up For New CodeRed System

Mayor James Della Volpe announces that the City of Ansonia has contracted with Emergency Communications Network, LLC to license its CodeRED high-speed notification solution. 

The CodeRED system provides Ansonia officials the ability to quickly deliver messages to targeted areas or the entire City of Ansonia. 

Click here to sign up.

According to the Mayor, We are continually striving to enhance our service to the citizens of Ansonia during times of emergency. One of the things that we learned during Tropical Storm Irene was that we needed to find a way to communicate with as many of our residents as possible and CodeRED will allow us to do that.”

Chief Kevin J. Hale, the City of Ansonia’s Emergency Management Director, cautioned that such systems are only as good as the telephone number database supporting them. 

If your phone number is not in the database, you will not be called,” he said. 

One of the reasons the CodeRED system was selected is it gives individuals and businesses the ability to add their own phone numbers directly into the system’s database, which is an extremely important feature. 

No one should automatically assume his or her phone number is included,” Chief Hale said, urging all individuals and businesses to log onto the City of Ansonia website at www.cityofansonia.com and follow the link to the CodeRED Community Notification Enrollment” on the home page. 

Click here to go directly to the CodeRed registration form.

Those Ansonia residents without Internet access are asked to have a friend or relative go to the website and enter the information. 

Those without this ability may call the Ansonia Police Department (203 – 735-1885) to supply their information over the phone. 

Required information includes first and last name, street address (physical address, no P.O. boxes), city, state, zip code, and primary phone number, additional phone numbers can be entered as well. 

All businesses should register, as well as all individuals who have unlisted phone numbers, who have changed their phone number or address within the past year, and those who use a cellular phone or VoIP phone as their primary number. 

CodeRED allows geographically based delivery, which means street addresses are required to ensure emergency notification calls are received by the proper individuals in a given situation. The system works for cell phones too, but we need to have an associated street address to provide relevant messages,” Chief Hale explained.

CodeRED gives those who want to be included an easy and secure method for inputting information. The data collected will only be used for emergency notification purposes. Questions should be directed to the Ansonia Police Department at 203 – 735-1885.

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