Hawaii lacked safeguards in mistaken missile alert, Pai says
Hawaii’s emergency authorities lack reasonable safeguards to prevent the kind of false alert that panicked residents on Saturday with warning of an imminent ballistic missile attack, head of the Federal Communications Commission says
FCC Chairman Ajit Pai said in a statement on Sunday that an investigation into the incident is well under way with federal and state officials.
"It appears that the government of Hawaii did not have reasonable safeguards or process controls in place to prevent the transmission of a false alert," Pai said. In determining steps to prevent a rerun "we also must ensure that corrections are issued immediately in the event that a false alert does go out."
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