[EAS] Disputed alert system gets upgrade after Wine Country fires

[Adrienne Abbott]

Art--
I don't understand this concern about WEA messages going to entire counties. Our CAP EAS tool allows state and local officials, our Authorized Originators, to draw a polygon around around an area of concern and their WEA activations will be sent only to the cell towers in that polygon and not the entire county.  I guess I've always assumed that any CAP program would do this because it's one of the most attractive features of WEA. What am I missing???

EAS activations, of course, go to stations with the county of concern in their list of Locator Codes, limited only by the vagaries of their broadcast signal.  

Adrienne

> On Nov 7, 2017, at 11:07 AM, Botterell, Arthur at CalOES <Arthur.Botterell at CalOES.ca.gov> wrote:
> 
> Hi Bob,
> 
> The rules at present still require only county-level targeting, although the carriers report that they've been doing more precise targeting for some time.  Updated rules will be more stringent, but those haven't taken effect yet.  All the approved software I'm aware of supports polygon entry.  
> 
> I think the gap is in training and information... alert originators are still being trained (to the extent they're being trained at all) per the FCC regs rather than the actual state-of-the-art.