16. A situational awareness system, comprising: a plurality of computer-controlled member systems associated with members of the situational awareness system; a controller configured to communicate with the member systems; the controller further operative for receiving a request for situational awareness information from a requesting device associated with a requester including a geographic area of interest and one or more of a demographic profile of interest and a topical area of interest; the controller further operative for receiving real-time geographic location data reported by member systems comprising mobile communication devices associated with a plurality of the members of the situational awareness system; the controller further operative for identifying member systems corresponding to the situational awareness request based at least in part on the geographic location data reported by the mobile communication devices; the controller further operative for sending an opt-in prompt to a opt-in member system corresponding to the situational awareness request; the controller further operative for including data related to the opt-in member system in the situational awareness information based on an affirmative response received from the opt-in member system to the opt-in prompt; and the controller further operative for providing the situational awareness information to the requester including demographic statistics for members of the situational awareness system associated with member systems located within the geographic area of interest; the controller further operative for receiving a survey request, advertisement, promotional offer, or notification from the requester; and the controller further operative for transmitting the survey request, advertisement, promotional offer, or notification to the member systems identified by the situational awareness information.
17. The system of claim 16 , wherein: the controller is further operative for receiving data from a public offender database; and the controller is further operative for providing the situational awareness information in response to determining that the requester is not identified as a public offender in the public offender database.