AWARN Ready to Weigh In on READI Act as Bureau Chief Details Priorities
The Advanced Warning and Response Network Alliance wants to comment on FCC proceedings arising out of the Reliable Emergency Alert Distribution Improvement Act (see 2012040043) on a report on emergency alerting over streaming media, it said in a filing posted…
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in docket 15-94 Tuesday. AWARN Alliance Executive Director John Lawson, ATSC President Madeleine Noland and other members of the AWARN Alliance Steering Committee met virtually with Public Safety Bureau Chief Lisa Fowlkes and staff Thursday. The alliance wants to “re-engage” with “key federal agencies and non-government organizations involved in alerting,” to discuss using 3.0 in emergency communications and the development of “model voluntary agreements” between TV stations and alert originators. Fowlkes listed “responding to directives from Congress in the READI Act” and “convening a new Communications Security, Reliability and Interoperability Council,” as priorities for the bureau, the filing said.