Evacuations to Include Background ChecksThe Associated Press
Published Saturday | December 15, 2007
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) - Texans who board buses to evacuate during the next hurricane or other emergency will first have to submit to criminal background checks, the state's emergency management director said.
The policy is an attempt to keep sex offenders and fugitives from boarding evacuation buses with children, the elderly and the disabled, said Jack Colley, the chief of the state's Division of Emergency Management.
No sex offenders or other criminals will be left behind in an evacuation, but will be evacuated on different buses.
"This will allow us to help them evacuate," Colley said. "We're not going to leave anyone."
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"We'll be able to do it," Colley said.
"We'll have procedures and we're not going to advertise what they are."Rest of article at:
http://www.omaha.com/index.php?u_page=1115&u_mod=ap.online.headlines.us&u_sid=10210501uhc comment: This should be fun. . . .