About Johnson County's WebEOC®
Johnson County Emergency Management & Homeland Security maintains an online incident management system that increases the ability to coordinate disaster response and recovery with city, county, state and federal disaster response partners.
The software connects the County Emergency Operations Center with all cities in Johnson County, metro area emergency operations centers, the state of Kansas EOC, as well as other partners in emergency/disaster response.
WebEOC is aweb-based application that allows the county and cities to communicate and coordinate response and recovery operations in secure, real-time environment. It can allow access to state and national weather trends, satellite images, mapping information, details of operations in other jurisdictions, local, regional and even national resource status and other data vital to the efficient management of any contingency.
The entire MARC region of eight counties is also using WebEOC, allowing the integration of operations and expand the communications capabilities of all impacted jurisdictions as well as jurisdictions providing mutual aid.
"Ease of use" was one of the main criteria used in selecting the system to be used in the county's EOC. Our Emergency Operations Center is fully staffed infrequently and, then, under the most stressful circumstances. These conditions do not blend well with operational complexities. WebEOC is designed to be so intuitive it's operation can be explained in just a few minutes. Just point, click, and type event information… and integrated, multi-agency, multi-task operations ensue. This system is one of many tools being used by Johnson County to ensure the best possible disaster / emergency response and recovery system.
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