SB 465: Governor’s Office of Emergency Services: California Alert.

The bill would require the Office of Emergency Services to establish a statewide emergency alert system, California Alert. This system would utilize wireless emergency alerts authorized by the Integrated Public Alert Warning System to provide authenticated emergency information to the public through mobile phones within a designated area. The system would send alerts to registered phone numbers that are not location-based, allowing residents to receive alerts regardless of their location. The Office of Emergency Services would need to contract with a private vendor to provide the alerting systems and establish standards for issuing emergency alerts across local jurisdictional boundaries.