US government looking to overhaul emergency alert system

[Ironhold]

NAB Backs Bill That Would Update EAS Rules.

In the wake of the 2018 false alarm in Hawaii, the federal government has decided to consider massively overhauling the national Emergency Alert System.

2018.

2020.

Your government at work, people...

 

[Tanj]

Not clear on the point you are trying to make.

 

[Ironhold]

Not clear on the point you are trying to make.

It took the government two years to respond to a critical flaw in its emergency alert system.

You'd think something like this would, ya know, be more of a priority.

 

[iluvatar5150]

It took the government two years to respond to a critical flaw in its emergency alert system.

You'd think something like this would, ya know, be more of a priority.

From the description in the article, most of those bills don’t directly address the issue of bogus alerts and the one that does was introduced in 2018 but didn’t pass.