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Michigan AG Leads Coalition Urging FCC to Publish Multilingual Emergency Alert Rule

Michigan AG Nessel leads a coalition urging the FCC to publish a rule to expand multilingual emergency alerts, which has been ...

Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel calls on FCC to issue emergency alerts in languages other than English

It's been 10 months since the FCC finalized a rule that would expand the languages emergency alerts are offered. However, the ...
WUNC

Emergency alerts go out in Spanish and English, but what happens if you speak another language?

But some Democratic Congress members and nonprofits say since the Trump administration came into office, the FCC has delayed sending what's called a report and order to the Federal Register. That ...

AG Nessel urges FCC to expand multilingual emergency alerts

Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel has joined a coalition of 18 other attorneys general and the City of New York in urging the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to immediately publish a ...
Northcountrypublicradio.org

Emergency alerts go out in Spanish and English, but what happens if you speak another language?

The FCC has delayed implementing its multilingual emergency alerts system — making non-English speakers vulnerable during climate disasters. Emergency alerts go out in Spanish and English, but what ...
NPR

Emergency alerts go out in Spanish and English, but what happens if you speak another language?

Two years ago, the Federal Communications Commission unanimously voted to require that wireless emergency alerts reach people in 13 languages and American Sign Language. Those are the alerts people ...