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Academic emergency‑management advocate urges commission to professionalize local disaster response
6685300 · October 22, 2025
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Dr. Jennifer Carlson, a professor and certified emergency manager, testified in favor of H885, calling for a special commission to study and recommend ways to professionalize emergency‑management positions across Massachusetts to improve local disaster response.
Dr. Jennifer Carlson, professor of emergency management at Anna Maria College and a certified emergency manager, urged the Joint Committee on Emergency Preparedness and Management to advance H885, a resolve to create a special commission on emergency management.
Carlson said Massachusetts needs to…
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