#EmergencyManagement nerds:What's the deal on helping people who ask you to find their loved ones, in a disaster context?
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#EmergencyManagement nerds:
What's the deal on helping people who ask you to find their loved ones, in a disaster context?I ask because my #CERT program (we call it NET) is very clear that we must not do that.
Cuz: Perps use disaster chaos to locate and/or contact people they are enjoined from contacting, and people who built new lives away from the perps.
I see #HamRadio in the Southeast after #Helene, connecting 1000s of relatives w each other. Any concern?
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Riley S. Faelanreplied to Merilee D. Karr last edited by
@merileedkarr Why don't the people who do the locating have access to the contact injunction order database?
Also, even if they really don't, there's the simple protocol of locating the person, and then asking them if they want to be contacted by this particular suspicious person. If they do, the emergency folks could put them in touch, and if they don't, then, well, they could not do that.
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Merilee D. Karr, MD, MFAreplied to Riley S. Faelan last edited by
@riley
I agree!
I think that should be the directive from above, not "don't do it."
Hams would have to be trained on the algorithm.
I can't tell if the NC hams I'm listening to are taking that precaution. -
Riley S. Faelanreplied to Merilee D. Karr last edited by
@merileedkarr In some European countries, this is explicitly the protocol police uses when locating missing people: if they find the person, they ask them if they want to be found by whoever is looking for them, and take 'no' for an answer if that's what it is.