Case Study: Athens County achieves rapid emergency alerts and improved public safety with Everbridge

Athens County - Customer Case Study

Athens County, Ohio — home to Ohio University and roughly 64,000 residents — needed a dependable way for public-safety agencies to reach responders and citizens with timely, accurate information about incidents, road closures and large events (including a 5,000-person Halloween Block Party). Officials sought a system that could deliver messages quickly across multiple channels and provide on‑scene situational awareness.

They implemented Everbridge to gain real-time intelligence and rapidly notify the public and first responders. The user-friendly platform (trainable in under five minutes) is used county-wide for events, weather alerts and emergencies; it enabled a boil-water order to be issued in minutes and improved coordination with event police and volunteers, substantially increasing operational efficiency and communication reliability.

Athens County

Kimberly J. Smith

Athens County