Get local safety advisories & crime alerts by text
Nixle makes local safety advisories & crime alerts available by text message
Sign Up at https://local.nixle.com/register/
or
text your ZIP CODE to 888777 to get mobile alerts
You will get a text message whenever an alert or advisory pertinent to your area is issued. You can choose to get text messages to your smart phone and/or voice messages to your home phone.
You can also view the most recent alerts for our area at any time. Sign-up not required -- https://local.nixle.com/zipcode/48322/
- This Zip Code 48322 search includes alerts and advisories from West Bloomfield Police, Orchard Lake Police, City of Farmington Hills, and Bloomfield Township Police & Fire.
- You can modify the search to change localities (by cities, counties, or Zip Code) and agencies you want.
- Alerts and advisories are for severe weather, criminal activities, missing persons, unscheduled road closures, other public safety matters.
- This service is free and non-commercial.
What is Nixle? (from the Nixle FAQ web page)
Nixle is a Community Information Service dedicated to helping you stay connected to the information that matters most to you, depending on your physical location. You stay connected to your local police department, your children’s schools, your local community agencies and organizations, and the important information from other locations throughout the country that are relevant to you. Our service is built on the most secure, reliable, and high-speed distribution platform, ensuring that you receive trusted and immediate, geographically relevant information. Information is immediately available over your cell phone by text message, by email, and over the web. Your account can be customized so you receive the information that matters most to you. Whether it is where you live, work, or have friends or family throughout the country, the information is immediately available to you over your mobile phone, email and computer.
What messages would I receive through Nixle?
Only authenticated agencies and community organizations can securely publish information. There are four types of messages; Alerts (many would refer to this as an emergency type alert), Advisories (less urgent need-to-know information), Community Information (day-to-day neighborhood to community-level information), Traffic (very localized traffic information).
Nixle offers notification services for local police departments, county emergency management offices, municipal governments and their agencies. - Wikipedia