Case Study: City of La Porte achieves rapid, reliable citywide emergency alerts with Alertus Technologies

The World's Largest Concentration of Chemical Plants

City of La Porte, Texas (population 34,469), confronted a unique emergency-notification challenge as the home to 48 chemical facilities and two ports. The city needed a fast, reliable way to alert schools and public buildings about hazards like hazardous-waste incidents because its existing VHF radio/PA system was slow, unreliable, and often required someone to be physically present to hear messages. To solve that problem the City of La Porte turned to Alertus Technologies and its Alert Beacon notification devices.

Alertus Technologies deployed Alert Beacons across all school buildings, libraries, city hall, recreation and senior centers, and partnered facilities in the petrochemical sector, and integrated the system with Blackboard Connect for simultaneous activations. The Alertus solution cut front-end notification time, reduced the need for follow-up phone calls, and enabled rapid shelter-in-place alerts; neighboring cities have begun adopting the technology (Pasadena installed 100 Alert Beacons, and Deer Park is considering it), demonstrating measurable improvements in speed and broader regional coverage.

City of La Porte

Jeff Suggs

Emergency Management Coordinator