The Orange County Sheriff’s Office uses an emergency notification system to send public safety messages to our community. This allows us to provide a fast, effective, and efficient method for delivering real-time alerts to citizens in the time of a public safety emergency or major incident, such as an evacuation order during a hurricane or a missing child in your neighborhood. We can send notification alerts via a voice message to land-line telephones, cell phones, VOIP phones and via text messages to SMS devices or email. Orange County residents with phone numbers listed in the phone book are already registered to receive these public safety alerts.