Campus Safety Magazine

Essential Campus Emergency Notification Strategies: 15 Critical Practices for Public Safety and Emergency Management Administrators

Implement layered notification technologies where each system’s strengths compensate for others’ limitations. This redundancy ensures message delivery when individual systems fail or experience ...
E&E

Florida’s emergency manager has a new job: Detaining immigrants

Kevin Guthrie operates “Alligator Alcatraz.” Some emergency managers worry that could scare Hispanic residents away from seeking help in a hurricane or other disaster. Kevin Guthrie had a blunt ...
ProPublica

Local Officials Have a Powerful Tool to Warn Residents of Emergencies. They Don’t Always Use It.

ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up for Dispatches, a newsletter that spotlights wrongdoing around the country, to receive our stories in your inbox every ...
Campus Safety Magazine

‘All-Clear’ Messages: Are They Included in Your Emergency Notification Program?

For years now, Campus Safety has emphasized the critical nature of emergency notification systems. Whether the threat is an active shooter, a hazardous materials incident, or severe weather, rapid ...
Reuters

FEMA cuts emergency training under Trump as hurricane season looms

WASHINGTON, May 11 (Reuters) - The U.S. federal disaster agency FEMA has sharply reduced training for state and local emergency managers ahead of the start of the hurricane season on June 1, according ...
Phys.org

Hurricane Katrina: Three painful lessons for emergency management are increasingly important 20 years later

Hurricane Katrina looms large in the history of American emergency management, both for what went wrong as the disaster unfolded and for the policy changes it triggered. As the nation looks back on ...