Transmitting near real-time geographic mass messaging requests

A system for transmitting geographic mass messaging requests, the system comprising:

• a memory;
• a transceiver;
• and
• an electronic processor communicatively coupled to the memory and the transceiver, and configured to
• receive a geographic mass messaging request via the transceiver, the geographic mass messaging request including a message, a geographic reference, and a requesting agency identifier, and having at least one request characteristic;
• assign a priority to the geographic mass messaging request based on an electronically stored alerting authority policy and at least one selected from the group consisting of the requesting agency identifier, the geographic reference, and the at least one request characteristic;
• responsive to determining that the priority meets a priority threshold,
• transmit the message via the transceiver to a mass notification system for broadcast to end user devices in a specified geographic region based on the geographic reference;
• and
• transmit a request granted message via the transceiver to the requesting agency;
• and
• responsive to determining that the priority does not meet the priority threshold, transmit one of a request denied message and a request modification proposal via the transceiver to the requesting agency.