A federal judge has declined to require the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) to reimburse dozens of public broadcasting stations for upgrades to the nation’s emergency alert system.
U.S. District Judge Timothy Kelly on March 17 denied the Corporation for Public Broadcasting’s request for a temporary restraining order that would have forced FEMA to release funds that the corporation says it is owed for work on the Next Generation Warning System.
The corporation, or CPB, has not demonstrated that the alert system will stop working if the grant funding doesn’t start flowing right away, Kelly concluded during a hearing….