This message was sent to ##Email## February 13, 2020   |   Home  |   About  |   Membership  |   Education & Training  |   Resources  |        TOP NEWS Congress revisits driverless car bill as NHTSA gives approval Governing The House appears close to reviving a debate over whether to regulate the driverless vehicle industry, but all of the concerns that torpedoed past efforts remain: Namely, how best to balance safety of new technology and the freedom to innovate. Though a GOP-led House in 2017 passed by voice vote a bill aimed at creating a regulatory framework for the self-driving car industry, a Senate version of the bill died in 2018, largely over Democrats’ concerns about the safety of the burgeoning technology.  READ MORE Copernicus' eye in the sky brings disaster management to a whole new level Relief Web This is a composite before and after image of Tacloban City's downtown and airport areas before and after Super Typhoon Yolanda (Haiyan) hit the Philippines. The maps were released by the Copernicus Emergency Management Service (EMS) on November 11, 2013.  READ MORE Hundreds of county jails detained immigrants for ICE Route Fifty Hundreds of county jails in the U.S. are paid by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to detain immigrants facing removal proceedings. On a typical day in 2017, for instance, Theo Lacy Facility in Orange, California, operated by the Orange County Sheriff’s Department, held about 500 individuals for ICE and received $118 per person per day, bringing in a total of $59,000 a day.  READ MORE    SPONSORED CONTENT Promoted by Insurance Program Managers Group The most effective way to protect public safety employees How to use predictive data to reduce workers’ compensation claims Don’t fear your workers’ compensation audit — here’s what you need to know Minimizing claims costs by tackling core issues affecting workforce health The tools public entities need to mitigate risk and manage claims   Technology on the side of emergency response alerts The Newport News Times When the big quake comes, the siren in Waldport, Oregon, won’t be sounded. But that doesn’t mean the residents will be left without warning. Central Oregon Coast Fire Protection District Chief Gary Woodson said the siren bolted atop the fire hall on Highway 34 in Waldport was not working when he joined the department almost three years ago. “It’s a mechanical siren from the ‘60s,” he explained.  READ MORE Does Dallas still have any of its Cold War-era nuclear bomb fallout shelters? Curious Texas investigates The Dallas Morning News On Feb. 16, 1955, The Dallas Morning News ran a front-page story about the horrors of atomic war as described by the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission. Eleven months earlier, as the Cold War escalated, the U.S. detonated a bomb dubbed Castle Bravo in the first of a series of thermonuclear tests at Bikini Atoll, Marshall Islands.  READ MORE What's next for the world's chief resiliency officers? Next City Dutch cities are rightly famous for their dual-purpose parks and playgrounds that double as flood protection, where what might be a basketball court most days becomes a temporary water retention pond during a big storm. Half a world away, Surat, India, along the Tapi River, is similarly concerned about floods. But instead of basketball courts, the Gujarati city has devised temples surrounded by so-called water plazas.  READ MORE In a 1st, Seattle City Council moves to ban winter evictions Route Fifty Landlords in Seattle would no longer be allowed to evict low- and moderate-income renters during the winter under a measure approved by the city council this week. If the legislation becomes law, Seattle will be the first city in the country to ban evictions during certain months of the year.  READ MORE After disasters, Puerto Ricans are left with $1.6B in unpaid insurance claims The New York Times When the ground shakes in Puerto Rico and it is time to head for higher ground, the people in the northwestern coastal city of Aguadilla find out the old way: the shrill of whistles. Aguadilla is one of two dozen cities on the island that do not have emergency alert sirens, even as hundreds of earthquakes have rattled Puerto Rico for weeks.  READ MORE PRIMA Risk Watch Connect with PRIMA Recent Issues | Subscribe | Unsubscribe | Advertise | Web Version  Colby Horton, Vice President of Publishing, 469-420-2601 | Download media kit Bethanney Standerfer, Content Editor, 469-420-2688  | Contribute news Public Risk Management Association 700 S. Washington St., Suite 218 | Alexandria, VA, 22314 | 703-528-7701 | Contact Us  Learn how to add us to your safe sender list so our emails get to your inbox. 7701 Las Colinas Ridge, Ste. 800, Irving, TX 75063