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of planned or anticipated disruption of municipal services & municipal <br /> or commercial utilities, the establishment of emergency shelters, <br /> implementation of curfews and other law enforcement security <br /> measures, the designation of security zones around specific planned <br /> events, the establishment of keywords for event-specific messaging, <br /> and other similar messaging that conveys a change in the County's <br /> steady-state operational posture; <br /> c. Disaster recovery information, such as the location of disaster <br /> recovery centers, availability of voluntary agency or governmental <br /> disaster recovery assistance, and updates on debris clearance and <br /> the allowance of re-entry into a portion of the subdivision impacted <br /> by a disaster; <br /> d. Emergency preparedness exercises, including operational tests of <br /> notification capability and public notification of functional or full-scale <br /> public safety and emergency management exercises occurring <br /> within the jurisdiction; <br /> e. Law enforcement searches for a missing person or a manhunt for <br /> escaped convicts or suspects evading arrest; <br /> f. Automated weather warnings provided by the National Weather <br /> Service; <br /> g. Notification and recall of County employees, contractors, and other <br /> response partners that support the activation of the County's <br /> Emergency Operations Center or supplement the staffing of existing <br /> public safety response and recovery functions, including the staffing <br /> of specialty response teams, and; <br /> h. Non-Weather Messages (NWMs) that the County is authorized to <br /> broadcast via their IPAWS Alertinq Authority including a Civil Danger <br /> Warning, Civil Emergency Message, Fire Warning, Hazardous <br /> Materials Warning, Local Area Emergency, 911 Telephone Outage <br /> Emergency, Nuclear Power Plant Warning, Radiological Hazard <br /> Warning, and future NWM's that may become available. <br /> V. Acknowledges that access to the Integrated Public Alert and Warning <br /> System (IPAWS) and Emergency Alert System (EAS) initiation features <br /> available in the system is contingent on the County: <br /> a. Acquiring its Collaborative Operating Group (COG) license from the <br /> Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), and; <br /> b. Registering with the National Weather Service for access to <br /> HazCollect. <br /> VI. Agrees to make a reasonable effort to supply the Division with requested <br /> information about any existing or recent local contracts for mass <br /> notification services, for the purpose of developing quantitative cost <br /> impact and qualitative notification capability measures in support of <br /> legislative budget requests for continued funding of the initiative. <br /> VII. Agrees to develop a written Standard Operating Procedure (SOP) that <br /> governs access to and use of the notification system within the County, <br /> to include, at minimum, the following topics: <br /> 3 <br />