The chairman of the U.S. Federal Communications Commission said on Sunday that Hawaii apparently did not have adequate safeguards in place to prevent a false emergency alert and that government officials must work to prevent future incidents.
The FCC “will focus on what steps need to be taken to prevent a similar incident from happening again,” Chairman Ajit Pai said in a statement after Saturday’s errant ballistic missile warning to Hawaii residents. “Federal, state and local officials throughout the country need to work together to identify any vulnerabilities to false alerts and do what’s necessary to fix them.”
