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Cal OES outlines new AFN guidance, training and county reviews but officials acknowledge limits
Summary
Cal OES officials described new advisory committees, training, multilingual resources and an annual county-plan review process that they say have improved planning for people with access and functional needs, while acknowledging resource and authority limits and remaining gaps in redundancy and real-time fail-safes.
The Governor's Office of Emergency Services told lawmakers it has developed new guidance, training and advisory structures to improve planning and response for older adults, people with disabilities and those with limited English, but officials acknowledged the state cannot unilaterally enforce local compliance.
Laurie Najura, deputy director for planning, preparedness and prevention at Cal OES, said the agency and its Office of Access and Functional Needs (AFN) have created a suite of resources since the wildfires covered in the auditor's report. Najura told the committee the state had added language libraries, expanded style guides and updated a functional needs library; she said those improvements are part of implementing statute passed after the audit.
Vance Taylor, chief of Cal OES's…
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