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Emergency‑management professor asks Legislature to create commission to professionalize field
Summary
Dr. Jennifer Carlson, a certified emergency manager and professor, urged the Joint Committee on Emergency Preparedness and Management to approve H.885, which would create a special commission to study and recommend steps to professionalize emergency management in Massachusetts. Carlson cited past responses to Hurricane Katrina, the Boston Marathon
Dr. Jennifer Carlson, a professor of emergency management and a certified emergency manager, testified in support of H.885, a resolve to establish a special commission to study and recommend ways to professionalize emergency management in the Commonwealth.
Carlson described more than two decades of emergency‑management experience, including roles in operations during Hurricane Katrina, the…
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