[EAS] "improving" EAS?

[Eric Adler]

But who am I to say that the missile alert was false?  What about alerts for possible events that then don't happen? are those 'false'?  I'm not an emergency manager.  I don't have access to all of the information that the local EOCs have.  If they issue an alert and then 'cancel' it, is that false?  It was a real alert when they sent it...

- Eric

On Fri, Jul 13, 2018 at 9:29 AM, Dave Kline <dkline at tvmail.unomaha.edu> wrote:
>Fine print. "up to 24-hours to report... AFTER IT'S DISCOVERED."
>So no. You wouldn't have to check the log each day.
>You are required to review the log on a weekly basis.
>If during that review, which most likely wouldn't happen until sometime during the following week, you discover a false alert was sent, then you have twenty-four hours from that point. Right?

>Of course, it is quite unlikely that a false alert would go un-noticed for that long.

>Ring Ring
>Hello
>Hi, this Joe over at KEAS-FM, did you just send out a missile alert?
>OH S***!
>Now you have twenty-four hours.

>But yeah! I agree with you that the more crap the feds throw on the EAS pile, the more stations will back away from all but the mandatory alerts.
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