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Knoxville Adding Emergency Software
Emergency alerts will soon be communicated in a way never "heard" before.

The Knoxville City Council Monday night approved the purchase of an emergency notification system called "Global Connect."

The software can send out mass phone calls within ten minutes once emergency information is uploaded.

Police Chief Ron Poyner tells WGIL the community can help in updating the database.

"What the public can do is either contact my office or city hall with their concerns, and if it was something that had to be mass communicated at that point then we would make that decision," Chief Poyner says. "Whoever has the access to the software, whoever has that actual password and user rights can upload that information."

Also approved by the council was the decision to move closed city files from City Hall to a corner in the Knox County historical museum's basement.

Mayor Pro-tem Bernadine Fleischer says the old records are a pain to keep, but their current placement is troublesome.

"We would just like to get things organized and put together, in a more secure place."

Fleischer plans to have all city records moved to the museum's basement.
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