[SamAdams76]

Breaker one-nine, this here’s the Rubber Duck...

[spokeshave]

get an amateur radio technician class license....info at www.arrl.org/home

[Hootowl99]

Look in the yellow pages for a commercial radio communications distributor. Heck you're working at the court house and probably know the local county commissioner or sheriff so just give them a call and find out who has the county's radio communications business. There used to be a radiotelephone network but cellular drove this pretty much out of business. Note that the commercial radio and any other radio based communications are open air so anyone and everyone with a scanner will be listening in. Satellite telephone private to everyone except the NSA. Hehehe. There is an inexpensive system called SPOT that can be used to transmit a simple message of your choosing to an email list via satellite plus has an emergency help required mode separately activated. I'd check out the SPOT products first.