I convened the Joint Legislative Committee on Emergency Management hearing. Thank you to our Vice-Chair, Senator Mike McGuire, Dr. Richard Pan, State Senator, Assemblyman Tom Lackey, and Assemblymember Cecilia Aguiar-Curry, and our panelists for participating emergency management hearing. This hearing addressed issues with our state’s fragmented emergency alert systems, unacceptably low resident sign-up rates, the consequences of neglecting emergency and evacuation warnings systems, and emergency notification deficiencies that contributed to the loss of lives this year.
