[EAS] Nevada Silver Alert

[Adrienne Abbott]

Suzanne--
I will take a look at Utah's legislation and see what we can do to develop
something similar here. I don't think the supporters of the bill have
considered some of the other tools and technologies that are available for
finding missing seniors. Many of these tools are already available and at no
or little cost and haven't been considered as a better way to solve this
problem.
Adrienne

"Radio burps, it cries, it needs to be fed all the time, it requires
constant attention, but we love it." Jim Aaron WGLN 

-----Original Message-----
From: eas-bounces at radiolists.net [mailto:eas-bounces at radiolists.net] On
Behalf Of suzanne at mab.org

Hi Adrienne - We fought this battle last year, and, while some language did
make it into the law books, we were able to convince the proponents NOT to
use EAS.  Our chief arguments were that the FCC has approved CAE for Amber
but there is no corresponding code for other missing persons, and that,
aside from Amber, EAS should be used only for widespread incidents that
affect a large number of people, and when you open the door for it to be
used for individuals, where does that stop, people get inured to the alerts,
it becomes like the car-alarm syndrome, etc. etc.  Utah actually has a
pretty good model for a Silver Alert program - one that does not use EAS.

-----Original Message-----
From: "Adrienne Abbott" <nevadaeas at charter.net>

Our legislature is considering a bill to create a "Silver Alert" that would
use EAS to broadcast information about missing seniors. The backers of this
legislation say the measure is "similar to the AMBER Alert for missing
children". How many of you have Silver Alerts in your state? How many of you
have Silver Alerts that use EAS in your state? Do you know how many EAS
activations there have been in your state for Silver Alerts?

Adrienne

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