"My highest priority is the safety of New Yorkers, especially during times of severe and unpredictable emergency events." ...

One of the new laws taking effect July 1 in Georgia requires all of the state’s public K-12 schools to install mobile panic alert systems that connect directly to local and state emergency services.

The alert appears in the phone’s default language. The text-like alerts are part of the nationwide Wireless Emergency Alerts System in operation since 2012. They’re an extension of the Emergency Alert ...