The Town of Huntington has a new emergency communication system and needs residents to sign up to be included in it.
Town Supervisor Ed Smyth said the town is asking residents to provide their contact information to the town so it can be added to the new database, which, town officials said, has tens of thousands fewer names in it than the previous system.
The town's contract with the previous vendor, OnSolve/CodeRED, ended in 2024, town officials said. In August of that year, town officials approved an annual contract with Lyme Computer Systems/Lyme Technology Solutions to serve as its emergency communication system. However, Smyth said, OnSolve/CodeRED declined to share residents' data over privacy concerns.
“We don’t own that company’s database with the phone numbers,” Smyth said.
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