More State, Local Organizations Permitted To Send WEAs, FEMA Tells FCC

Since June, 46 additional state and local organizations obtained permission to send wireless emergency alerts, said the Federal Emergency Management Agency's Integrated Public Alert and Warning System Program Management Office in an FCC filing in docket 15-91. That makes 622 organizations with such permission as of Wednesday. Forty-eight organizations have actually sent the alerts, an increase of two since Nov. 18 and 14 since June, FEMA said. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration has sent 21,357 WEA alerts since 2012, and the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children has sent 589, it said. The Jan. 28 FCC meeting will see a vote on an emergency alert system item on state and local EAS participation (see 1601070061).