Nixle Community Alerts

Nixle - Receive Community Alerts Via Text Message and Email

About

The Guilderland Police have partnered with Nixle to provide free alerts and notifications by text and email.

Nixle has been used around the country to help find missing seniors or children; evacuate flooded areas, alert community of criminal activity, emergency road closures, and other events that impact travel and public safety.

The power of the Nixle system is also its diversity of content, allowing not only those types of emergency alerts, but informing residents of wanted persons and arrests, important community events, and other relevant "want to know" information.

How to Register

To begin receiving text alerts only from the Guilderland Police simply text ALERTMEGPD to 888777 (How To Do This) or follow the below steps to further enhance your notifications.

Sign Up Here

  1. Fill out the registration form on this page with the mobile number you wish to receive alerts and notifications on. If you wish to also receive messages via email provide your email address. Providing your zip code will also opt you into other agencies sending alerts to your location.
  2. Log in to your Nixle account by retrieving a temporary password. You may also text "PASSWORD" to 888777
  3. Sign into your Nixle account to personalize your locations, and further customize the alerts and notifications you wish to receive, from what agency or agencies you want to subscribed to, and how they are delivered.
  1. What is Nixle?
  2. How much does it cost?
  3. What type of alerts and notifications are there?
  4. How many SMS (text) messages will I receive in a month?
  5. How do I customize who I receive alerts from and how they are delivered?
  6. I keep getting alerts while I am sleeping. Is there anything I can do about this without unsubscribing?
  7. How do I send the keyword "ALERTMEGPD" to 888777 to sign up?
  8. I am a Sprint user and get a “Message Failed” response when I register using the 888777 shortcode. Why is that?
  9. Can anyone track my location by using Nixle?
  10. Is my contact information private? Will I be contacted by third parties?
  11. What if I forgot my password?
  12. How do I unsubscribe?
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