CCRC Report Goes to Governor and News Media, But for the Rest of Us, We’ll Just Have to Wait

The Comprehensive Communications Review Committee has submitted its report and held its news conference, which you can view and read about it at the Governor’s website.

But you can’t read the report there. Unlike the CCRC’s draft report that was posted online in January, the final report isn’t available to the public as of late Saturday the 13th. A report that purportedly details how the public will be better served in future emergencies is not yet available to the public. You could laugh if it weren't so serious.

Of course, this isn’t unusual, since the public has never been party to the committee’s doings. As CHORE noted in a recent post, the committee was a group of insiders who among themselves and without public scrutiny have concluded what’s best for us.

Here’s the official word on the committee’s doings, as presented at Saturday’s press conference by co-chair Lenny Klompus, the Governor’s senior communications advisor and PR man:

“The Committee is very proud of the report that was put together and that you have right now. The public should feel great confidence in the communications delivered to them accurately and in a timely manner in an emergency based on what the committee was able to do over this last year.”

Just what did the committee do that should make us confident? We don’t know. We’re simply told we should be confident that the same people and agencies who failed so obviously on October 15, 2006 to provide timely emergency communications will do the job properly in the future.

That’s asking a lot. Unanswered at this moment are the questions CHORE posed two days ago about what we hope is in the CCRC’s final report.

Since citizens were not allowed into the committee’s workings and deliberations, it’s completely within our right to demand that this document be made available on the Internet immediately.

We should be confident the Governor will do the right thing...........right?