Texas emergency alert bill faces renewed scrutiny
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Texas, Blue Alert and ICE
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Blue Alerts are issued to help catch people who are believed to have wounded or killed local, state or federal law enforcement officers. Here are the criteria for a Blue Alert: A law enforcement officer must have been killed or seriously injured by an offender.
Benjamin Hanil Song is accused of shooting an Alvarado police officer during an attack on the Prairieland Detention Center.
Back in October, a Blue Alert, the alert issued when a law enforcement officer is injured or killed, received 4,000 FCC complaints in Texas after it triggered cellphones at 4:30 a.m. Holland believes if someone receives alert after alert and does not find them relevant to their specific location, they will become complacent.
Texas is one of several states that use Blue Alerts, but what is it, and how does it differ from AMBER Alerts?
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As devastating floodwaters swept through the Hill Country in the early hours of July 4, a volunteer firefighter requested a mass emergency alert to warn residents.
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A Texas firefighter pleaded for an alert amid rising flood waters. It took an hour to go out - Leaked audio provides new alert timeline as officials face scrutiny over when residents first learned of
Fox News correspondent Christina Coleman has the latest on the deadly central Texas floods that have killed 120 and resulted in more than 170 missing on ‘The Story.’
The search for missing bodies continues along Texas’ Guadalupe River after catastrophic and deadly flooding killed at least 111 people following a torrential downpour Thursday evening into early Friday.