While I agree that overly wide blanket alerts for missing children are doing more harm than good, I fail to see how that’s relevant to this article…
Edit for the downvoters out there:
Lest you think this is out of some concern for my own convenience, I’m fortunate enough to have a fairly flexible schedule and I don’t need to drive daily. I can sleep in if I get woken up, but most people need to leave and go to work regardless of a poor night’s rest. My concern is for anyone who needs to drive, or do any job where mistakes can lead to loss of life.
I’d ask you to consider daylight savings time. Studies of it have confirmed that disrupting peoples sleep en masse has a direct cost in human lives. The costs need to be considered carefully and weighed against the benefits, and alerts like this need to be as localized as realistically useful. Someone 40km away should absolutely not be getting a presidential level alert about a missing child in the middle of the night which overrides DND mode.
I don’t know if you missed it in the article or simply didn’t read it.
The case being discussed is one in which a family moved from BC to AB. As a result, they were able to leave behind an open investigation into child abuse.
There is no formal process of warning (alerting) other jurisdictions, so they got to start with a clean slate in AB.
The judge thinks that having these warnings cross boundaries might save lives.
So literally nothing to do with the emergency alert system.
While I agree that overly wide blanket alerts for missing children are doing more harm than good, I fail to see how that’s relevant to this article…
Edit for the downvoters out there:
Lest you think this is out of some concern for my own convenience, I’m fortunate enough to have a fairly flexible schedule and I don’t need to drive daily. I can sleep in if I get woken up, but most people need to leave and go to work regardless of a poor night’s rest. My concern is for anyone who needs to drive, or do any job where mistakes can lead to loss of life.
I’d ask you to consider daylight savings time. Studies of it have confirmed that disrupting peoples sleep en masse has a direct cost in human lives. The costs need to be considered carefully and weighed against the benefits, and alerts like this need to be as localized as realistically useful. Someone 40km away should absolutely not be getting a presidential level alert about a missing child in the middle of the night which overrides DND mode.
Is there a different alert system I am not aware of? Please enlighten me.
I don’t know if you missed it in the article or simply didn’t read it.
The case being discussed is one in which a family moved from BC to AB. As a result, they were able to leave behind an open investigation into child abuse.
There is no formal process of warning (alerting) other jurisdictions, so they got to start with a clean slate in AB.
The judge thinks that having these warnings cross boundaries might save lives.
So literally nothing to do with the emergency alert system.
Okay thanks
No problem. Next time, you can get me. :)
:)