<html><body dir="auto" role="textbox" aria-label="Message Body"><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><span id="OLK_SRC_BODY_SECTION"><div xmlns:v="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:vml" xmlns:o="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" xmlns:w="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:word" xmlns:m="http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/2004/12/omml" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40"><div lang="EN-US" link="#0563C1" vlink="#954F72"><div class="WordSection1"><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center;text-autospace:none"><b><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center;text-autospace:none"><b><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center;text-autospace:none"><b><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">DEPARTMENT OF LAND AND NATURAL RESOURCES<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;letter-spacing:2.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;letter-spacing:2.0pt">DAVID Y. IGE</span></b><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><br><span style="letter-spacing:2.0pt">GOVERNOR<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;letter-spacing:2.0pt">SUZANNE D. CASE<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;letter-spacing:2.0pt">CHAIRPERSON</span><b><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><b><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">September 3, 2020<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center;line-height:115%"><b><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">DOBOR ANNOUNCES ALERT NOTIFICATION SERVICE
<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="xmsonormal" style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black"> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="xmsonormal" style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">(Honolulu) - The DLNR Division of Boating and Ocean Recreation (DOBOR) has entered into a contract with AlertMedia to distribute alert notices
via email, text, voicemail and mobile app to the general community. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="xmsonormal" style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="xmsonormal" style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">This free service and DOBOR’s messaging should be of special interest to Hawai’i boaters and ocean users. DOBOR’s alert notices will focus
on the division’s activities and the incredibly diverse events which impact the numerous ocean user groups in the islands, including commercial and recreational boaters, divers, surfers, harbor tenants and other ocean related user groups. <span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="xmsonormal" style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="xmsonormal" style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">DOBOR encourages ocean activity users to sign up for these alerts via its web sign-up page located at:
</span><a href="https://hawaiidlnrdobor.alertmedia.com/public/v1"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">https://hawaiidlnrdobor.alertmedia.com/public/v1</span></a><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="xmsonormal" style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black"> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="xmsonormal" style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Earlier this year, DOBOR offered to send notices to individuals who were just interested in DOBOR’s response to the Covid-19 pandemic. Those
posts included bulletins on how Covid-19 was affecting DOBOR operations as well as boating and ocean recreation in the islands. Following that launch, DOBOR offered to send notices to the community about division activities like pending hearings, rule amendments,
procedural changes, facility closures; anything DOBOR was doing or planning to do that would affect ocean users. <span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="xmsonormal" style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black"> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="xmsonormal" style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">The AlertMedia software offers a host of benefits aside from quick and efficient message dissemination. It also offers message tracking,
“geofencing” and weather alerts. Geofencing, allows the system administrator to encircle an area on a map and transmit messages just to users inside that geographic area. Aside from the traditional email and text message, messages can be transmitted to the
public via voicemail and the AlertMedia app. <span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="xmsonormal" style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black"> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="xmsonormal" style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">“We predict DOBOR’s notifier system will become an indispensable tool for DOBOR to reach out to the public quickly and efficiently when there
is urgent need for communication. The partnership with AlertMedia not only streamlined our notification process, it allowed DOBOR to consolidate all of its notification efforts in a state-of-the-art communication environment,”
<span class="apple-converted-space">said</span> Ed Underwood, DOBOR Administrator. <span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="xmsonormal" style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black"> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="xmsonormal" style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Ocean activity users can download the AlertMedia app for iOS and Android via the<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><a href="https://apps.apple.com/us/app/alertmedia-pro/id899199006?mkt_tok=eyJpIjoiWmpreVkyWmpOV1EwTkdFeiIsInQiOiJcL3FoSzhrUHZITEdsWis3QmhBUlBYcGRwNFl2M1ZWeGNuWjdJZTdtNHBWZEFOM01NQXBRRHorYkFzbkZnWEVUQkhEU2NsYTA4bDdHa1pQVFd4UXRUb2ZhZ0ZqMHpLeUZncit2YzVUSFBLZkdRWk1IaHg3dUw3akM3aFwvbGs1QWlsIn0%3D"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Apple
Store</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black"> </span></span><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">and<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><a href="https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.alertmedia.android.alertmediapro.app&hl=en_US&mkt_tok=eyJpIjoiWmpreVkyWmpOV1EwTkdFeiIsInQiOiJcL3FoSzhrUHZITEdsWis3QmhBUlBYcGRwNFl2M1ZWeGNuWjdJZTdtNHBWZEFOM01NQXBRRHorYkFzbkZnWEVUQkhEU2NsYTA4bDdHa1pQVFd4UXRUb2ZhZ0ZqMHpLeUZncit2YzVUSFBLZkdRWk1IaHg3dUw3akM3aFwvbGs1QWlsIn0%3D"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Google
Play</span></a><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="xmsonormal" style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black"> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="xmsonormal" style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">DOBOR will adhere to strict data use policies and will never sell information on system users to a third party. Participants can unsubscribe
from the service at any time. <span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black"># # #<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><b><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Media contact:<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">AJ McWhorter<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Communications Specialist<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Hawaii Department of Land and Natural Resources
<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><a href="mailto:dlnr.comms@hawaii.gov"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">dlnr.comms@hawaii.gov</span></a><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">808-587-0396 (Communications Office)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://www.facebook.com/HawaiiDLNR/"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:windowtext;text-decoration:none"></span></a></p></div></div></div></span></div></blockquote></body></html>