[EAS] Interesting Discussion on Canadian Emergency alert.

Sean Donelan sean at donelan.com
Fri Feb 22 10:43:08 CST 2019


On Thu, 21 Feb 2019, Alan Alsobrook wrote:
> This is a public thread on a Canadian amber alert. It's interesting to note 
> how the conversation changed as the details came out.
> https://www.dslreports.com/forum/r32291878-Emergency-alert-at-11-38PM

Its important for officials to perform after-action reviews of incidents, 
including the use or non-use of public alerting systems.

After-action reviews are the way to learn what worked, and what didn't 
work, and to improve the process for the future.  Its also important to 
share the results of after-action reviews widely.  Otherwise, each 
locality ends up making the same mistakes and must re-learn the same 
lessons.

Localities in the US could learn from the experience in Canada. 
Localities in Canada could learn from the experience in the US.

For example, what were the lessons learned from the missing person WEA 
alert, not Amber alert, in Las Vegas this week?  Or what were the lessons 
learned from using WEA for a missing person in Los Angeles also this week?



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