[EAS] Should various "color" alerts use the Amber code
Sean Donelan
sean at donelan.com
Fri Feb 22 12:07:19 CST 2019
In addition to Amber, there are now Blue (police), Silver (elderly), Green
(veterns), Golden (handicapped), Yellow (hit and run), and various other
types of Missing Persons.
When legislators pass new color alerts, they almost always say "like"
amber alerts. But in practice, they don't use the amber codes. Instead
the other color alerts use the "Imminent Threat" code on cell phones,
which means the public needs to disable all types of Imminent Threats if
they don't want the various colors of Missing Person alerts.
Should all the Missing Person and Be On the Lookout (BOLO) alert colors
(amber, blue, silver, green, golden, yellow, etc) use the same WEA
code?
Change the WEA mobile phone alert user interface to
1. National/Presidential
2. Imminent Threat (Extreme/Severe)
3. Be On the Lookout Out/Missing Persons instead of Amber alert
This might slow down local officials from misusing Law Enforcement
Warning, Civil Danger Warning and other Imminent Threat alert codes for
Missing Person and Be On the Lookout messages. It seems like nothing is
going to slow down local officials from creating more color codes, so
might as well make them less annoying.
They keep saying "like" amber alerts anyway.
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