[EAS] Statewide CAP in CA?

[Richard_Rudman]

Hello, Steve:

My answers below in bold.

1.  have heard from other members of our company's TV group that amber alerts (CAE) will be mandatory. Do you know anything about this?

Not true

2. I didn't see it on the CA. or L.A. county plan. Will the local and state plans be updated soon.

State plan is being rewritten at this time, I will be working with Lark Hadley, the LA LECC Chair, on adding CAP provisions and other Fifth Report and Order changes to the LA plan. I act as an advisor to the LA LECC.

The Broadcast Warning Working Group (BWWG) will shortly release an EAS sample state plan that can be used in whole or in part to help state EAS committees re-write their plans. We will make this sample plan available to state broadcaster committees, SBE (for possible distribution to Chapters), and post it on the EAS_Forum.

3. I am getting the National Weather Service CAP using HTTP Get from http://alerts.weather.gov/ as well as the FEMA IPAWS.
Is there going to be a statewide CAP in California (EDIS)? 

CalEMA is telling the CA SECC that they will eventually stand up a state CAP server. No date announced to us yet. The state will get certified to originate CAP messages through the gateway that FEMA is offering to the OPEN IPAWS aggregator. The state in turn will review applications from the operational areas and for emergency who have taken FEMA's online IS-247 training course (and passed the test) and tell FEMA who they have authorized to also originate through the federal aggregator.  

Finally, the BWWG is suggesting that anyone interested in the origination process take the FEMA IS-247 on line course. I took it -- takes well under two hours depending on your level of familiarity with some aspects emergency management. Well worth the effort.

Stay tuned to the EAS Forum for more developments.

Richard Rudman
Vice Chair, CA SECC
Core member, BWWG

On Apr 17, 2012, at 4:05 PM, Diggins, Steve wrote: