Long Beach’s top emergency manager said Friday the city’s overhaul of its emergency notification system is nearly complete after a security breach in November compromised the data of 24,000 accounts and forced the city to shut it down for months.
Reginald Harrison, director of Long Beach’s Disaster Preparedness and Emergency Communications Department, said in an email that it has switched all existing accounts onto the new platform, run by Crisis24.
The service, free for anyone who signs up, notifies cellphones in a designated geographic area with alerts on natural disasters, dangerous weather and other emergencies…