[EAS] Blue Alert Implementation

[Phil Johnson]

Art,

In addition to Clay Freinwald's comments, here's my personal and politically
incorrect view:  

The BLU Alert was dreamed up by elected and appointed politicians who wanted
to be seen as "doing something" about attacks on LE Officers, regardless of
the fact that it's unneeded, confuses the public about EAS Event Codes,
won't do any good, and would not have prevented previous attacks on cops
anywhere in the country.

Not that I feel strongly about this... :-)

Phil Johnson, Chair
Central Puget Sound (WA) LECC
  

-----Original Message-----
From: EAS [mailto:eas-bounces at radiolists.net] On Behalf Of Botterell,
Arthur at CalOES

OK, so I had a call from the California Highway Patrol asking what event
code they should use for Blue Alerts... they're writing their procedures
now.

Hesitate to reopen the topic, as I know there are some strong feelings about
it, but... given that Blue Alerts are happening, what should CHP put in
their procedures just now?  My understanding, not having read the R&O, is
that there's a new event code specified, but that that will take some time
to roll out.  So until BLU or whatever is generally implemented, what would
work best?  

CHP suggested the LEW, but I'm not sure how that's programmed at most
stations.  I suggested that CEM might be a good stopgap coding, but I don't
want to confuse things any further.

So... understanding that not everyone here is in California, what advice
should I give our law enforcement partners?

Thanks!

Art

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