We prepare for what we hope never happens & provide structure & coordination when it does. Our office works with all response agencies by providing training, coordinating drills & exercises as well as responding to emergencies & disasters. We perform community education, hazardous materials planning and reporting, all-hazards planning, special needs planning, grants management, assist w/ 911 syste
m & county radios, provide radiation safety, disaster related regulatory & statutory requirements, maintain Emergency Operations Center (EOC), oversee stormspotters & assign county addresses, just to name a few. SOCIAL MEDIA RULES:
Coffey County EM utilizes Facebook as an open source for two-way communication & welcomes comments, questions & ideas from all sides of issues. While our ultimate goal is to keep the public notified, we also expect individuals to maintain an acceptable degree of civility. This is not a forum for attacking us or any organization we re-share information from. Questions on things we share need to be asked of the organization in the original post. Coffey Co EM monitors all comments and reserves the right to immediately hide any comment we deem inappropriate. Repeated violations of the department's comment policy may cause the author to be blocked from the page. A comment will be hidden if it contains the following:
-Hate speech
-Profanity, obscenity or vulgarity—including creative spellings of swear words using asterisks
-Sexual content or links to sexual content
-Defamation to a person or people
-Comments that promote or advertise a person, business or commercial transaction
-Comments that promote or oppose any person campaigning for election to a political office, or that promote or oppose any ballot measure
-Comments that infringe on copyrights
-Spam comments, such as the same comment posted repeatedly
-Other comments that the department's social media team deems inappropriate
