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Public Safety Bureau Denies Sonoma County WEA Test

The FCC won’t allow a wireless emergency alert test Sept. 3 as proposed for Sonoma County, California. Staff denied a waiver to permit commercial mobile service providers to participate because the county failed to explain why it didn’t plan to…

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use the usual state/local WEA test category requiring public opt-in. “Sonoma has sufficient lead time to inform the public how to opt in,” said the Public Safety Bureau Thursday.