Text Messaging Alert System
The Belmont Safe Schools Text Messaging Alert System, allows students,
parents, relatives & school staff to receive important messages from
their school or from Belmont PD, over their mobile devices (cell phone,
smart
phone, PDA, etc...). The system can be used to advise of school
closures, traffic issues, and incidents on or near campus, etc...
Because it is a text message, which goes to a mobile device, subscribers
can receive the
message if they are in class, the library, their dorm/apt or off campus.
Subscribers sign up at their school's website and are in the system
until they remove themselves, so for example, an incoming student and
their
family only have to sign up once during their years as a student at that
school. Subscribers can remove themselves at any time. This system
received initial funding from the City of Belmont as part of its
Disaster
Preparedness efforts and is maintained through the Belmont Safe Schools
Program.
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