Full Notification

The Ashland Police Department is launching a new Community Information Service designed to deliver important and timely information to residents in our area using the latest technology.

This service, created by Nixle, LLC delivers trustworthy and important neighborhood-level public safety and community event notifications by web, e-mail, and cell phone. Nixle is completely free, simple, and trusted. Residents of the Town of Ashland can now take advantage of this community information service that alerts you to public safety threats and community events via web, e-mail, and cell phone.

Nixle is a new community information service provider built exclusively to provide secure and reliable communications. Its authenticated service connects municipal agencies and community organizations to residents in real time, delivering information to geographically targeted consumers over their cell phones (via text messages), through e-mails and through Web access. Nixle is offered at no cost to all governments, their agencies and organizations, nongovernmental organizations and consumers.

“We have been searching for a way to provide our residents with information on critical incidents and items of community interest in real time,” said Doug Goodman, Chief of the Ashland Police Department. “Based on our research, especially the use of Nixle by other agencies, we feel that this is a win-win for both the agency and especially the community.”

Nixle is a consumer driven service in that the only way a community member can receive Nixle messages from the Ashland Police is to register with Nixle. Once registered, residents, businesses and other community members will be able to receive police-related and municipal government information via Nixle in real time thru emails and text messages on their cell phones. “From our research, the only possible cost for the consumer may be related to receiving text messages that are not covered under the consumers current cell phone plan,” said Chief Goodman. Before registering, the Ashland Police would like to encourage its community members to check on the text messaging allowances in their own cell phone plan.

Craig Mitnick, the founder and CEO of Nixle, said Nixle differs from current services such as Facebook, MySpace and Twitter, which provide unauthenticated platforms for connections. Nixle solves that problem by providing a single standardized service for consumers to receive immediate and credible neighborhood-level public safety and community information. “Nixle is a first-of-its-kind tool for communities that need to provide critical information to their residents,” said Craig Mitnick, founder and CEO. “When it comes to public safety information, you have to trust the source. Residents of the Town of Ashland can rest easy that the local messages they receive are authentic.”

For more information or to register, visit www.nixle.com.