Case Study: Plymouth County, Massachusetts achieves rapid recovery of missing 12-year-old with OnSolve CodeRED

Plymouth County, MA community responds to CodeRED alert for missing boy

Plymouth County, Massachusetts faced a critical missing-child emergency when a 12-year-old boy disappeared from Carver. The Carver Police Department and Plymouth County Sheriff’s Department needed to rapidly notify nearby residents to assist in the search, and they used OnSolve’s CodeRED emergency notification service to send targeted alerts.

Using OnSolve’s CodeRED, Plymouth County launched an alert at 3:30 p.m.; a resident who received the message relayed it to her husband, who searched the woods and found the child about half a mile from home around 4:00 p.m., safely reuniting him with his father. The timely OnSolve alert mobilized local agencies and the community and produced a measurable outcome—a rescue within roughly 30 minutes—underscoring the impact Sheriff Joseph D. McDonald, Jr. credits to ongoing CodeRED service.

Plymouth County, Massachusetts

Joseph D. McDonald

Plymouth County, Massachusetts