Citizen Launches Real-Time Safety Tools in Atlanta
App launch brings safety and security alerts to help keep Atlanta communities safe and offers added transparency to emergency services
Citizen, the most trusted public safety app in the country, is now available in Atlanta, Georgia. Citizen is a free app that keeps you up to date with local safety information through 24/7, real-time notifications about nearby emergencies and ongoing incidents.
Citizen’s alerts are generated using publicly available emergency services data, and give users immediate, actionable insight into public safety in their communities, helping keep themselves and their families safe. Now more than ever, it’s imperative that citizens have a clear and transparent understanding of what is going on around them so that they can make better decisions in their daily lives.
“The people of Atlanta urgently need tools that cultivate transparency and new systems and models where police and civilians are both held accountable,” stated Andrew Frame, CEO and Founder of Citizen. “A shared and open system can serve as the foundation for the rebuilding of trust between law enforcement and communities. We’ve deployed Citizen in more than 20 cities across America and starting today, we’re bringing Citizen to Atlanta.”
Alerts about incidents like fires, car collisions, and searches for missing people provide information for your own safety. The alerts are accompanied by live stories, real-time updates, and user-generated content to provide users with situational awareness, context and clarity. Powered by machine learning tools that help identify the most important safety incidents, Citizen leverages technology to bring transparency and equity to public safety.
Citizen has seen significant growth in recent months and now has more than 5 million users across 20+ US cities. Atlanta residents can download the free app via the App Store and Google Play. For more information, visit citizen.com.
About Citizen
Citizen is the №1 public safety app in the U.S., with a mission to make the world a safer place. Citizen provides 911 alerts so people can use their phones to keep themselves, and the people and places they love, safe. Citizen has notified people to evacuate burning buildings, deterred school buses from nearby terrorist attacks, and led to the rescue of kidnapped children and missing people. Citizen’s 911 alerts are accompanied by live stories, real-time updates, and user-generated content so app users never have to wonder why there are helicopters overhead or fire engines flying by.
