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www.AmericanSecurityToday.com February 2019 - Edition 32 (Regroup’s free AlertMe app from Regroup Mass Notification enables your audience to manage their notification set- tings and communicate better than ever before.) By encouraging your audience to down- load AlertMe, you will maximize the ef- fectiveness of your organization’s mass communication capabilities. 2018 Achievements During 2018, Regroup Mass Notifica- tion pursued technological improve- ments and acted quickly with com- munity-serving policies that helped keep people safe and informed when time was of the essence and lives were on the line during emer- gencies across North America. Here are some highlights of how Re- group was used in 2018 to protect Americans and provide better informa- tion and support to front line security teams and first responders: Reducing Riptide Deaths Dare County, North Carolina has the highest numbers of riptide-related drownings in the country. County officials selected and imple- mented Regroup Mass Notification’s unique “text-to-join” feature through- out their community to enroll both resi- 28