[EAS] BLU Alert Comments.

[Mike McCarthy]

Yes and no Sean,

The BLU alert as I read it is for the dissemination of an alert for a law
enforcement officer whose well being is unknown at significant and
imminent risk of harm or death by criminal activity without aid and
assistance.

The Ft. Hood shooting and Boston Marathon incidents do not fit, as I read
the parameters, BLU issuance as specific law enforcement officers were not
the targets.

Now, I don't dispute some sort of public alert may have been prudent for
any of these situations. The question is to what extent and whether it
rose to the level of an EAS message. True, the SB shooting was not
contained to the municipal complex and there was a public risk. But was
geographically confined to a relatively small area in the overall metro,
never mind the enormously huge county.

Ft. Hood was confined to a small area on a military base.

Boston...well...much like NYC bombings, it's really hard to alert a dense
metro without the risk of hysteria.

I can't speak to the Dorner shooting.

Never mind the current system of alerting is to whole counties and is
overkill for geographically finite events.

As you cite, the law was created to improve inter-agency communications in
addition to the aforementioned officer well being mission. Such is well
outside the scope, mission and granular resolution of EAS except as the
last resort.

MM

On Wed, August 2, 2017 2:18 am, Sean Donelan wrote:
> On Tue, 1 Aug 2017, Mike McCarthy wrote:
>
>> I called BLU and all special interest non-mass effect events Vanity
>> Event
>> Codes....for this very reason. The needs of the one out weight the needs
>>  of the masses.