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House adopts ‘Lulu’s Law’ to let emergency managers use Amber-style alerts after unprovoked shark attacks
Summary
The Alabama House passed House Bill 437, known as “Lulu’s Law,” after survivor Lulu Gribben told members about her 2024 shark attack. The bill authorizes, under strict conditions, emergency officials to use an Amber-style alert geofenced to beaches after an unprovoked shark attack in close proximity to shore.
The Alabama House passed House Bill 437 on a voice/roll vote after testimony from shark-attack survivor Lulu Gribben and floor debate.
The bill, carried in the House by Representative David Faulkner, authorizes emergency management professionals, in coordination with local officials and the state department named in the statute, to use an Amber-style alert with geofencing when there has been an “unprovoked shark attack in close proximity to a shoreline or coastline.” Representative Faulkner said the measure is intended to give emergency responders “a tool in their toolbox,” not to create a new alert system.
Nut graf: The bill was prompted by Gribben’s June 2024 attack off a Florida beach; she told the House she had…
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