Patent ID: 8751265

Claim:
An apparatus for management of information for use in mitigating an emergency, said apparatus comprising a data storage device configured to store registrant information obtained from members of a population residing in a particular geographic area, and a set of survey questions, and a data storage system, said data storage system configured to implement a survey editor, said survey editor being configured to enable emergency management agencies to create a survey for soliciting, from said members, information for inclusion in said registrant information, wherein said information is pertinent to planning for, mitigating, responding to, or recovering from said emergency, said survey editor providing, to said emergency management agencies, an interface corresponding to each agency, said interface being configured to enable selection of a subset of questions from said set of questions, said subset of questions being selected from said set of questions based at least in part on said particular geographic area, and a survey portal, said survey portal being configured to enable receipt, from said member, of a response to said survey, wherein said data storage system is further configured to integrate said response into said registrant information.