[EAS] Ashanti Alert??

[Rod Zeigler]

A couple of years ago there was a big push in the Nebraska Unicameral 
for Silver alerts. A hearing was held and not one person testifying 
wanted these alerts tied to EAS, myself included. Instead Nebraska came 
up with the Endangered Missing Alert (EMA), that is an e-mail push 
alert, administered by the Nebraska State Patrol, to those signed up for 
it. All of the media immediately signed up as well as a few of us in the 
alerting and EM fields, but it is open to anyone.

We saw the coming proliferation of Color and/or Name alerts and decided 
to get ahead of the game with a catch-all system to get the information 
out without clogging up the short fuse event EAS system. At this time we 
do not see Nebraska using Ashanti or any other new voluntary alerts that 
might come down the pike.

-- 
R. V. Zeigler, Dir. of Eng.
Nebraska Rural Radio Assn.
KRVN AM & FM  KAMI
Chairman, Ne. SECC
Exec. Dir. NEBA
www.krvn.com