UALR says multiple alerts best way to warn of danger
By Tara M. Manthey , Charlotte Tubbs
The thousands of emergency-alert phone calls and e-mail messages that the University of Arkansas at Little Rock sent to students and staff after Wednesday’s shooting were effective — if they were received, campus officials said.
The new alert system’s first live test worked well despite glitches, the university said.
UALR Chancellor Joel E. Anderson said that Wednesday’s first messages were sent within 14 minutes of a 911 call — a rapid response in his opinion. However, some complained this week that they didn’t get a message or that messages were late.
“The anecdotal evidence from the standpoint of a lot of people, it worked well and quickly,” he said. “To others it did not. The systems were overloaded. One reason was because of the cell-phone calls that people began to make. Those are issues that we need to look at really carefully. We will look at the strengths and weaknesses and correct them.”
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This article was published Saturday, March 1, 2008.
