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What is Nixle?
Nixle is a Community Information Service built exclusively for secure and reliable communications. The Nixle service is built on the most authenticated, secure, reliable, and high-speed platform, ensuring communications are trusted and accurate. How much does it cost? Nixle is completely FREE to all governments, their agencies and organizations, and approved NGO’s. How is Nixle funded? Nixle is a privately funded company. Who is authorized to send messages? Local law enforcement agencies; city and municipal governments, their agencies and representatives; school districts; public, private, and parochial schools; county agencies who provide services to cities, municipalities, unincorporated or undesignated areas; state police patrol divisions who provide public safety services to cities, municipalities, unincorporated or undesignated areas; sheriff departments who provide public safety services to cities, municipalities, unincorporated or undesignated areas; state, federal, and national agencies and NGO’s. How do consumers receive information? Nixle currently delivers information to consumers over their cell phones (SMS text messaging), emails (computers and smart phone devices), and simple web access at www.nixle.com . What is the difference between the “SMS Text” and the “Full Message Text?” The SMS text will be sent to an end user's mobile device. It will also appear as as message summary in the email version of the message. The Full Message Text is sent to a user’s email and is instantly available to any user online at www.nixle.com. What are the differences between the message types? The Alert message type is intended for “urgent must know” notifications. It is similar to what many would refer to as an emergency alert. Only law enforcement, elected or appointed officials can authorize the public release of an urgent message. The Advisory message type is intended both for time-sensitive and non-time-sensitive important neighborhood to community level information. The Advisory type message may also include advisories for public safety, health, weather, traffic, and similar kinds of information. Traffic messages allow for traffic-specific notifications to inform users of events such as road closures, detours and accidents. The Community message type is intended for all municipal and community non-time-sensitive messages, news and information. |