The Alaska State Troopers will begin using a new statewide alerting platform beginning on July 1, 2022. The system will alert Alaskans to timely information regarding Alaska State Troopers operations in their area. The new tool will allow residents to subscribe to email and text alerts initiated from the Alaska State Troopers. The current Nixle-based alerting capabilities will be ended on June 30, 2022, as the new system comes online.
Public Information Officer Austin McDaniel tells KSRM:
“Starting July 1st, the Alaska State Troopers, Alaska Wildlife Troopers, and the Alaska Department of Public Safety will be moving to a new alerting system. We’re going to be moving away from Nixle and moving over towards a new tool. It’ll look and feel a lot of the same as Nixle did for many Alaskans. You’ll be able to subscribe to SMS and email alerts and there’ll be more improvements coming in the next few months. At the launch, Alaskans will be able to subscribe to timely alerts from your Alaska State Troopers on a variety of things including your missing persons bulletins, alerts about significant law enforcement activity in your area, there’s an evacuation information the Alaska State Troopers need to provide, suspect information, any other timely alerts that you would have gotten from Nixle. You’ll now have to subscribe to our new alerting tool to be able to receive those into the future.”
The new alerting tool will join the state’s 511 system for road closures and traveler information, and the AKTips anonymous crime tip tool for submitting anonymous crime tips to law enforcement. The state of Alaska will continue to use the Amber Alert and Silver Alert systems as part of the partnership with the Alaska Broadcasters Association and the Alaska Division of Homeland Security and Emergency Management.
Alaskans can self-subscribe for alerts from Troopers by region, which includes the Kenai Peninsula.
NOTE: Alaskans interested in signing up for alerts through the new DPS alerts tool can do so online at: https://alerts.dps.alaska.gov/
