Colorado law enforcement agencies are fed up with problems with an emergency notification system meant to serve multiple counties and are looking for a better solution.
The Douglas County Sheriff’s Office says it is taking steps to end a contract with the provider of an emergency notification system called CodeRed after trouble with the system, blamed by the company that runs it on a “targeted attack by an organized cybercriminal group.”
The service provides emergency messages to a number of counties and jurisdictions in Colorado, but has been problematic for over two weeks for DougCo, Aurora, and Weld County, among others…