Orland Park is switching to a new – and much cheaper – system for getting out its village-wide mass emergency notifications. Everbridge is being made available for free to the village through the Cook County Department of Emergency Management and Regional Security.
The village will transition to Everbridge in 2026, marketing it as “OP ALERTS,” to enhance communications during emergencies, critical events, public advisories and general news from the village.
Currently, the village uses CodeRed as its high-speed voice communication service for emergency notifications. The village’s annual cost for the CodeRed service is $24,255. Everbridge, a leader in unified critical communications, will be used to keep the community safe and informed with quick and reliable emergency notifications and public service announcements.
The Cook County Department of Emergency Management and Regional Security has purchased Everbridge Mass Notification for each municipality in Cook County to use at no charge. As part of the Memorandum of Agreement, Orland Park will get two systems, one for public notifications and one for internal notifications for all Orland Park employees.