[EAS] Ashanti Alert??

[Richard Rudman]

I have to agree with Ed Czarnecki on the point he made in his post that I copied below and go on to make a point that I have made before, and will likely have to make again from time-to-time until things change. I feel the need to remind one and all, including "lurkers" on this list,  that the United States still does not have a thoughtful, coherent and clearly articulated national public warning strategy.  Thanks to FEMA, we have a name for it if and when and if we ever do have such a national policy: IPAWS. The current national public alert and warning landscape is not "Integrated" by any stretch of the imagination. It is hard for me to see how adding piecemeal patches such as "Blue" Silver" and other categories to an as yet undefined overall policy serves the public well.  

For people new to the topic of public alert and warning,  a number of us tried very hard to have this discussion within the Partnership for Public Warning, Inc. (PPW) that came into being almost 20 years ago following the events of September 11. 

Thanks again to FEMA and some responsible broadcast industry vendor actions, EAS alerting technology has improved. However, integrating this improved technology with all the new ways to inform the public that have been developed by other industries has not been implemented in the cultures and practices of law enforcement and emergency management to the degrees required, not to mention the uncoordinated actions of "agencies/fiefdoms" that through no fault of their own do not answer to an overall national policy.

Richard

>On Jan 15, 2019, at 9:04 AM, Ed Czarnecki <ed.czarnecki at monroe-electronics.com> wrote:

>I don't object to missing adult notifications, per se, but without a
>coherent national framework, and with emergency alerting divided across 4+
>agencies/fiefdoms, the potential for these things to go sideways is ever
>present.