The Vermont Department of Public Safety will be conducting a Blue Alert System exercise ... will also broadcast test messages with the Emergency Alert System (EAS). Vermonters will only receive ...

The Department of Public Safety develops and issues blue alerts across the state ... to vent their frustrations with the state’s emergency alert system. The Department of Public Safety did ...

Blue Alerts were added to the EAS in December 2017 following an amendment to the FCC’s Rules Regarding Emergency Alert Systems. The FCC said the alerts can be used by state and local authorities ...

One unhappy Texan tweeted, “Pushing a “Blue Alert” through at 4:50 a.m. using the whole-state emergency alert system for a state as big as Texas is insane. The county is hundreds of miles away.

Another user, Matt Hopkins, criticized the emergency alert system, tweeting, “Sending a ‘Blue Alert’ at 4:50 AM is an abuse of the emergency alert system. How many people were woken up in ...

Here are some reactions via X. Texas sending a “blue alert” at 4:50am in the morning is an abuse of the emergency alert system. How many people were woken up in the middle of their sleep by it?

Greg Abbott signed a bill into law in 2023 that creates the Athena Alert for the state’s emergency alert system ... a delivery driver in Wise County. Blue Alerts are designed to help track ...

According to a government website, when a Blue Alert is issued, it means officials are attempting to “rapidly disseminate information to law enforcement agencies, the media, and the public to ...

Blue Alerts are issued to help catch people who are believed to have wounded or killed local, state or federal law enforcement officers. Here are the criteria for a Blue Alert: A law enforcement ...

Or, maybe, your phone lights up with an alert describing a vehicle, but again you write it off. What it could be is a Blue Alert, which relates to a suspect on the loose who killed or injured a ...