RAVE Alert

Alert Barry County is Barry County’s official emergency alert and notification system. This system is used to send alerts to the public during emergencies. Alert Barry County is a free service that allows you to sign up online to receive customized alerts via text message, email, and voice message. 

In addition to emergency alerts, you can also choose to receive customizable community notifications. These include notifications about severe weather, safety, health, utility disruptions, major traffic incidents, and more. 

When emergencies happen, be the first to know. Barry County uses Alert Barry County to send official, real-time alerts to the public with information about potentially life-saving actions they may need to take to keep themselves and their families safe. 

When an emergency occurs that meets the criteria for sending out an alert to the public, Barry County’s emergency dispatchers or emergency manager will send out an alert to the affected area. Alerts can be sent out county-wide or to a specific area for more localized events. 

This service is provided by Barry County Central Dispatch at no cost to the public; however, message and data rates may apply depending on your provider and phone services 

While Alert Barry County is an excellent system, we cannot guarantee that you will receive notification in all cases. Disasters and emergencies are chaotic and unpredictable, and notification is dependent on external providers such as your wireless carrier or email delivery service outside Barry County’s control. Alert Barry County will use several means of communications to try to ensure that should any one communications method, technology, or delivery option be unavailable to reach residents, other methods will be used to improve the likelihood that citizens will see the message. 

Signing up for Alert Barry County is easy! Click here:
https://www.smart911.com/smart911/ref/reg.action?pa=barrycounty 
To update your existing Alert Barry County preferences, click here
https://www.smart911.com/smart911/ref/login.action?pa=barrycounty
If you already have a Smart911 profile just log into your account at
https://www.smart911.com/smart911/login.action

Emergency alerts are sent 24/7 when there is an immediate threat to life and/or property. In addition to emergency alerts, you can also choose to receive customizable community notifications. These include notifications about severe weather, safety risks, health risks, road closures, and special event information. 

Follow the below steps to change your Alert Barry County preferences (for example, to reduce the number of messages of a certain type, or to change the contacts used for each kind of message 

Go to the login page for Alert Barry County at https://www.smart911.com/smart911/ref/login.action?pa=barrycounty  

Login using your Alert Barry County username and password (If you’ve forgotten these, follow the instructions on the page under “Forgot Username or Password?”)

Once signed in, click the ‘Preferences’ tab at the top

Under ‘Notification Preferences’, you can make changes to both the phone numbers and email addresses on which you want to receive Alert Barry County messages by clicking or unclicking the checkboxes

You can also choose what alerts you want to receive and the method you wish to receive them by (text, voice, email) 

No, your information is private and will not be used or distributed in any manner. The information that you provide is exempt from public disclosure and will be used for emergency purposes only. 

Personal information provided to Alert Barry County is private and only used to notify you for official Barry County communications.  Your information is not used for marketing purposes and will not be sold to telemarketers or data-mining organizations. A variety of “opt-in” mechanisms are available to ensure you are getting just the messages you want to receive, delivered via the devices and communications modes that you choose.

Alert Barry County utilizes the highest standards in physical and computer security technologies and conducts regular audits to ensure all information is kept secure. Privacy policies are also outlined in the Terms and Conditions you review when you sign up to receive Alert Barry County notifications.