I would be happy to share all the information we have about using URLs in WEAs. It has been a long process to get to where we are now and we have seen significant benefits to the change in technology. This process can and should be duplicated wherever it can. We have been contacted by multiple states requesting the same information. I am looking into conducting a Webinar for all of those who are interested in learning more about what we do. This would include a good chunk for Q&As.
With that said, I am happy to answer questions in advance if you have any (and that goes for any other state coordinators or PIOs). If others can learn from our journey and use the information to be more effective, I would consider it a big win.
I don’t know if we are the busiest, but we have had quite a bit of experience and are always trying to improve the process. We use URLs in WEAs in all qualifying alerts, not just AMBER. Our 2019 Alert numbers, as of September, are as follows:
AMBER – 7
Blue – 2
Endangered Missing – 15
Silver – 168
Have a great day and thanks for asking,
Ed Bertola
916-843-4199
[email protected]