Mission


Keep Georgia Safe is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization with the mission to provide safety education and crime prevention training in Georgia, and to operate the only network that sends Georgia Bureau of Investigation issued alerts for missing or dangerous persons to subscribers' cell phones.


Keep Georgia Safe operates the only wireless network that sends out all three of Georgia's emergency alerts for abducted, missing, or dangerous persons via cell phone.  When the Georgia Bureau of Investigation (GBI) issues an alert that a child has been abducted, an elderly or disabled person is missing, or a dangerous fugitive is at large, Keep Georgia Safe immediately sends a text alert with the pertinent information to subscribers cell phones free of charge.


Keep Georgia Safe has a two-pronged approach to safety training and crime prevention:


  1. Proactive: Education

    Keep Georgia Safe provides safety education and crime prevention training through:

    • Child Abduction Recovery Teams (CART): Keep Georgia Safe coordinates and sponsors CART training and certification, a multi-disciplinary approach for first responders to recover missing or abducted children.  All participating state and local agencies combine valuable resources and practice search techniques and strategies for the safe return of abducted children.

    • radKIDS Training: Keep Georgia Safe coordinates and sponsors this revolutionary hands-on educational program that provides tools and skills for trainers to teach children on how to recognize, avoid, resist and escape violence, abduction and harm

    • School Curriculum Initiative: curriculum for Georgia schools to teach age-appropriate safety empowerment programs and awareness

    • Legislative Initiative: Georgia currently does not have an alert for missing or abducted persons over the age of 18.  Keep Georgia Safe is working with lawmakers to mandate an alert for college-age and older adults.

    • Media Campaigns: public service information on safety education and crime prevention

    • Web and Electronic Outreach: website content providing safety tips and additional resources for crime prevention and alert network


  2. Reactive: Alert Network

    As the only organization that sends out all three of Georgia's emergency alerts, the Keep Georgia Safe Wireless Network uses a text platform to notify opt-in wireless subscribers when the GBI issues any of its three emergency alerts:

    • Levi's Call: Georgia's AMBER Alert for an abducted or missing child

      This is an emergency bulletin that is issued whenever a child has been abducted and is in imminent danger of harm or death.  The goal is simple: to locate the child and the abductor expeditiously before any harm comes to the child.  In Georgia, this alert is known as "Levi's Call" in memory of 11-year-old Levi Frady.

    • Mattie's Call: elderly or disabled missing person alert

      This is an emergency missing alert for elderly or disabled persons that are believed to be in immediate danger of serious bodily harm or death.  The Georgia alert is named in memory of Mattie Moore, an Atlanta Alzheimer's patient who wandered away from her home in 2004.  NOTE:  Broadcasters are not required to break programming to announce this alert.

    • Kimberly's Call: dangerous fugitive alert

      This is an emergency alert notification when a suspect for the crime of murder or rape has not been apprehended and law enforcement personnel have determined that the suspect may be a serious threat to the public. The Georgia alert is named in memory of Kimberly Boyd.  NOTE:  Broadcasters are not required to break programming to announce this alert.

Keep Georgia Safe provides the alert service free of charge.  Standard text charges, if any, will apply pursuant to the agreement with your cellular provider. Subscribers will not receive any texts or alerts other than GBI-issued alerts. To sign up for the Keep Georgia Safe alert network enter your cell phone number in the sign-up box on the home page or wireless alert page on this website.