[EAS] California Alert & Warning Guidelines: What's left out

[Sean Donelan]

On Sat, 23 Mar 2019, Richard Rudman wrote:
> Government originate alerts, warnings and tests and EAS Participants 
> and WEA providers relay. And, as most of us understand, the relay 
> process is more complex than if warnings were truckloads of coal that 
> just have to slide down a gravity-driven chute.

The Venn diagram of stakeholders isn't coterminous. They overlap and touch 
in different places. The stakeholders for an outdoor warning siren are fairly 
simple. Internet warning systems may have dozens of different groups with 
very divergent interests. Classic EAS and WEA is somewhere in the middle.

Different groups need different plans. But eventually they need to 
coordinate with each other.

If I could choose only one missing thing:

1. lack of measuring the performance and effectiveness of warning systems 
informing the public

Its somewhat related to after-action reviews. I would add some type of 
automated EAS and WEA performance reporting, because trying to guess what 
happened based on twitter and ad hoc news reports sucks.