New York Police Want to Add Images to Emergency Alerts
New York City needs to be able to attach images to wireless emergency alerts it sends to the public, said Police Commissioner James O’Neill in a letter posted Tuesday by the FCC in docket 15-91. O’Neil noted that in September…
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2016 when the New York Police Department got a photo of Ahmad Rahimi, later convicted of guilty of eight federal charges Monday in connection with a September 2016 bombing in Chelsea, it had to send out an alert advising the public to check the media for the image. “We cannot continue rely on the public taking this extra step,” he said. Microsoft said additional WEA requirements could have some effect on how smartphones operate. “Microsoft has not performed device testing but expects that the addition of an additional data page to a wireless emergency alert to accommodate polygon geocoordinates should impose a minimal impact on device performance and message delivery latency,” the company filed. “The potential for increased alert delivery latency or device performance degradation (specifically, battery drain) would be more likely to occur with a significantly greater number of polygon coordinates, due to the increased magnitude of calculations that the operating system would be required to perform.” Commissioners are scheduled to vote a draft order Jan. 30 (see 1801090050).