[EAS] "improving" EAS

[Adrienne Abbott]

Then there's the responsibility for training State and local officials on how to originate EAS activations as well as tests. And that training has been expanded to include WEA, because the CAP platform includes WEA and the cell phone industry hasn't stepped up to the plate. Another unfunded, undefined mandate. 

Adrienne

> On Jul 13, 2018, at 5:57 PM, Rod Zeigler <rzeigler at krvn.com> wrote:
> 
> Suzanne has reminded us all of something many of us have said for a long time.
> SECC's are only alluded to in the Rules and Regs as the body that creates and maintains State Plans.
> In the last couple of years that responsibility was expanded into creating, publishing, and tabulating the results of a survey on multilingual alerting in our states, to say nothing of maintaining changes that licensees make in their multilingual alerting activities. (Yep, that is in there too!)
> It will soon require SECC's to create and maintain online State Plans that are currently proposing to require information from entities not under the auspices of the SECC's. Lucky for us in Nebraska we have a very good working relationship with all of these entities. I know there are others that do not have this relationship which could make for some interesting situations.
> Rod