Case Study: Daviess County, Indiana achieves rapid recovery of runaway teens with OnSolve CodeRED

Crisis communication assists in locating runaways in Daviess County, IN

Daviess County, Indiana faced the urgent challenge of locating two teenage runaways and needed a fast, targeted way to alert the public. The county used OnSolve’s CodeRED emergency notification system and its advanced geotargeting capabilities to pinpoint the teens’ last known area and solicit immediate community help.

OnSolve’s CodeRED solution allowed dispatch to “ping” a cell phone, define a 3-mile notification zone, and deliver targeted alerts; a promising lead arrived just 1 minute 52 seconds after messages went out, and the teens were reunited with their families within 20 minutes. By leveraging OnSolve’s system, Daviess County rapidly located missing youths and demonstrated measurable improvements in situational awareness and response time.

Daviess County, Indiana

Paul Goss

Daviess County Director of Emergency Management