Emergency Management
Northeast Kansas Regional Notification System
Douglas County encourages residents to sign up for the NE Kansas Regional Notification System, a free call notification system being utilized by Douglas County to provide residents with health and safety information including weather alerts sent by the National Weather Service in Topeka.
For directions on setting up your account, see the Account Set Up Guide section below.
About the Northeast Kansas Regional Notification System
Account Set Up Guide
Sign Up
- Create a Username
- Usernames must be a minimum of 4 acceptable characters. Acceptable characters are: uppercase and lowercase letters, numbers, period, dash (-), underscore (_), and at symbol (@). No other characters or symbols are permitted at this time.
- Enter your first and last name.
- Create a Password
- Password must be 8 to 64 characters long and contain at least one letter and one number. Special characters are permitted, but limited to !@#$%^&*()
- Select a security question and answer.
- Enter a Registration Email Address. This address is used to send temporary passwords
- Accept the Terms of Use by checking the box
Click to Create Your Account
My Profile
After creating your user name and password, you’ll be brought to a page where you can complete your profile. Your first and last name and your registration e-mail are carried over.
Here’s How to Contact Me:
Enter how you want to receive alerts (SMS text messages, email, mobile phones, landlines, etc.). The order of these contact paths will be the order we will try and reach you in the event of an emergency.
My Locations
You can register as a resident or business. Choose a name/description for your Location. This can be "Home", "Work", "DayCare", etc.
The system sends alerts based on a geographical location. Insert up to five addresses for which you want to receive an alert if the location is affected by an incident or upcoming event.
Use your company name for first and last name if registering a business.
After entering your address, click Verify This Address to confirm it shows up correctly on the map. Once confirmed, click This is my Location.
Click Add Another Location to add your next address. If you are done, click Save & Continue.
Sign Up for Alerts
Select which weather alerts you want to receive (these will be based upon your location(s) entered).
To ensure you receive emergency alerts from Douglas County, please check the box next to -Douglas County Notifications-. If you don't click this box, we cannot reach you during an emergency!
Review the Information you entered! You can make any edits to your account here.
Click Finish to complete your registration. Congratulations!