To apply for your FREE membership in NYSING - New York Statewide Incident Notification Group, please fill out the following form. Fields marked with * are required. Applications with missing required information will not be processed.
Your application for membership indicates that you understand and agree to follow these 6 rules:
1) Sending alerts whenever possible is a condition of
membership. Not every area generates activity as frequently
as any other place, so there is no hard and fast rule about how many alerts
anyone should send.
A
member who has sent nothing in 6 months will be dropped. Only members who
participate in NYSING by sending valid alerts may receive traffic from more than one Zone.
Members who become unreachable by email will be dropped.
2) A valid alert is notification of an in-progress
incident that has been confirmed by trained public safety personnel at the
scene.
Airport standby alerts (1,2,3) do not require confirmation. Information regarding drills that generate noticeable radio traffic should be sent to NYSING-Chat and not alerted. Alerts should only be sent for the kinds of incidents that appear on the alert forms. Update alerts should not be sent unless the incident escalates to a higher priority event type. Follow-up information may be sent via NYSING-Chat.
3) All members must remain subscribed to NYSING-Chat and to NYSING's
global alert Zone, in addition to whatever Zones they choose to receive.
NYSING-Chat is to be used for administrative announcements
and urgent member-to-member communications only. All members
must be able to receive email from the Director, including any NYSING-Chat message originating from us and containing the string [Admin]
in the subject line.
4) NYSING alerts may not be forwarded to other organizations,
nor may alerts from other
services be forwarded into NYSING.
5) Abuse of NYSING facilities is prohibited. Abuse includes but is not limited
to sending alerts based on information gained by unlawful means (if it's illegal where you
are, it's prohibited by NYSING), sending personal messages via the NYSING alerting system,
or engaging in a "flame war" on the Chat list.
6) Non-voice traffic shall not be relayed directly to NYSING by means of cutting and pasting. Lawfully obtained details may be used to make alerts more complete and accurate, but the information must be summarized rather than forwarded.
(If you are already a NYSING member and wish to change your alert Zone(s) or email address, please indicate your membership number in the "NYSING number" field.)
Last updated on 2008 by Bob, NYSING-001