A government standard for emergency alerts could be working by...
A government standard for emergency alerts could be working by Q1 of 2011, since the Federal Emergency Management Agency plans to finalize the Common Alerting Protocol this quarter (CD May 19 p5), FCC Commissioner Meredith Baker said Monday. But “clearly,…
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probably, likely, there will be extensions,” she said at the Minority Media and Telecommunications Council conference. It has been several years, “a long time,” since the council and others sought implementation of a multilingual emergency alert system, so “I understand your frustration” about the slow progress, Baker said. Commissioner Mignon Clyburn said she’s “excited” for the FCC to work with FEMA on alerts in languages other than English. Commissioner Robert McDowell said he would “be delighted to tee up in a further notice the question of what can we do with multilingual alerts."