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Santa Barbara plans to automatically enroll residents into emergency alerts
Despite recent wildfires and a deadly debris flow last year, only 13 percent of county residents are signed up for Santa Barbara’s emergency alert system.
By Jonathan Bastian • • 1 min readDespite recent wildfires and a deadly debris flow last year, only 13 percent of county residents are signed up for Santa Barbara’s emergency alert system. A new state law allows counties to automatically enroll residents into their systems using public utility company data. This raises questions about data security and government overreach.
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- 20:01‘Sisyphean Justice’ at the Santa Barbara Arts Fund