Public Safety Bureau Releases Agenda for June 28 Multilingual Alerting Workshop
The FCC Public Safety Bureau’s Friday workshop on multilingual emergency alerting will include officials from the Federal Emergency Management Agency, emergency alert system equipment manufacturers, and Spanish- and English-language broadcasters, said a public notice agenda posted Friday. The workshop will…
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open with a panel on the regulatory framework for multilingual alerts, featuring FCC, FEMA and NOAA officials. The workshop will then examine existing multilingual alerting programs in jurisdictions such as Minnesota, and then focus on the current capabilities of EAS equipment, the PN said. The event is intended to “inform state and local emergency management and planning authorities on actions they can take to implement multilingual alerts,” the PN said. A Communications Daily Special Report on multilingual broadcast alerts found FCC rules requiring the practice are unlikely anytime soon (see 1904240021).