Weather & essential services
Severe weather, flooding, wildfire, power and water disruptions, transportation closures, and major service interruptions.
A planned reporting hotline and verified warning service for Black Texans—connecting local reports with useful information for Black Texas News subscribers.
In development · Hotline and alert delivery are not active.
This page does not receive incident reports or send subscriber alerts. The report tool below prepares a local draft only. No live incidents are monitored here.
Immediate danger or an emergency? Call 911. Follow official local instructions. Do not wait for a publication to respond.
A Texas network, built around community.
The proposed service would help residents, churches, chambers, businesses, and community organizations flag significant events. Editors would verify reports before issuing location-specific updates. The network would serve Black Texans across urban neighborhoods, rural communities, cities, and counties.
Community safety
Credible threats to community institutions, public safety incidents, and official missing-person notices. Allegations require verification and careful attribution.
Community access
Verified shelter, cooling and warming center information, school closures, and disruptions affecting access to care or essential resources.
Recovery & follow-up
Official assistance announcements, service restoration, corrections, and updates explaining what has changed since an initial notice.
PROPOSED REPORTING & NOTIFICATION PROCESS
Report. Verify. Notify. Update.
- Receive: A resident contacts the future hotline or reporting form with an event, time, location, and source.
- Verify: An editor checks the original source, affected area, urgency, and any official notice. An incoming tip is not a verified warning.
- Notify: An approved notice reaches subscribers who separately opted into that alert channel and geographic area.
- Update: Each notice records its source, issue time, affected area, next review time, and correction or closure when appropriate.
Planned subscription preferences: statewide notices or selected cities/counties; email first, with optional SMS if connected. News subscriptions alone will not automatically enroll someone in emergency texts. Delivery and response times will depend on the operating service; no 24-hour monitoring is currently offered.
Launch connections still needed
A receiving hotline number, a monitored editorial inbox and staffing schedule, a secure report intake, and the Black Texas News subscriber platform with explicit alert opt-in and unsubscribe controls. Neither churches, TAAACC, nor the wealth partner is represented as an emergency response operator.
PREPARE A LOCAL DRAFT / NOT A SUBMISSION
What happened? Where? When?
Use this template to organize a possible community report. It stays in this page until you download it; it is not sent to Black Texas News. Avoid private addresses, medical details, identifying information about minors, or unverified accusations. A city, county, or general public location is enough.
Your draft · not sent
Official information while the network develops.
For emergencies, call 911. For disaster information, monitor official local instructions and the Texas Division of Emergency Management. These links are independent resources; they do not connect to Black Texas News.
Disaster information & resources
State emergency management information and resources for Texans.
TDEM resources for Texans ↗Non-emergency threat reporting
iWatchTexas accepts reports of suspicious behavior that may indicate criminal, terroristic, or school safety threats. It is not an emergency reporting service.
DPS reporting guidance ↗Official resource links reviewed October 19, 2026. BlackTexas.org does not provide emergency dispatch or replace official public warnings.