OVERVIEW OF DRAFT REPORT TO THE LEGISLATURE

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OVERVIEW OF DRAFT REPORT TO THE LEGISLATURE

• Alert and Warning Working Group
• September 18, 2008

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Report Requirement

• Required by AB 2231 (Pavley), which also
  established this Working Group
• Reports on the Work Groups process to provide a
  framework for instituting a public-private
  partnership to enhance public access to
  emergency alerts

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Report Development Process

• Based on the first meeting of the Working Group
  on March 27, 2008, working teams were
  established. The work teams included
• Technical Issues
• Standardization
• Social Issues
• Legal, Liability, and Funding

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Report Development Process (2)

• Work teams began meeting in May 2008
• Each team
• Identified issues related to their area of
  responsibility
• Prioritized issues
• Initiated issue recommendations development
• Referred cross-cutting issues to other work teams

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Report Development Process (3)

• Throughout the work team process emphasis was
  placed on obtaining input from all alert and
  warning system stakeholders.
• Representatives of many aspects of the
  communications industry, local and state
  government, and special needs communities
  participated in all of the work teams.

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Report Development Process (4)

• As there were many cross-cutting issues, issues
  were combined by topic, rather than work team,
  for the draft report.
• Multiple meetings and conference calls were held
  to review recommendations.
• The process focused on reaching consensus on
  recommendations.

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Issue Areas

• Structuring Californias Statewide alert and
  Warning System
• System Governance and Maintenance
• Crafting the Warning Message
• Alert and Warning Technology
• Alert and Warning Accessibility

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Issue Areas (2)

• Legal/Liability
• Funding
• Evaluation
• Training, Credentialing, and Identity Management
• Public Education
• Integration of Warning with Public Information

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Work Group Review of this Draft

• Task 1 General Context and Tone Are we on the
  right track? (Additions? Deletions? Format?)
• Task 2 For Specific Issue Areas -- Do you
  agree with the findings and recommendations? If
  not, how would you change them? What is missing?

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Work Group Review of this Draft

• In the overall review of the draft report,
  please keep in mind the taskings given the Work
  Group in the Pavley bill.