<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"> I saw the governor's news conference about this,, he specifically stated that the media was critical in helping get information out to the public. I can't believe that they would stop the media if you have a business card and/or some sort of identification, at least i would hope not.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Dave Ratener </div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div id="composer_signature" dir="auto"><div style="font-size:85%;color:#575757" dir="auto">Sent from my T-Mobile 4G LTE Device</div></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div><br></div><div style="font-size:100%;color:#000000" dir="auto"><!-- originalMessage --><div>-------- Original message --------</div><div>From: Lowell Kiesow via SBE16-Seattle <sbe16-seattle@sea.sbe16.org> </div><div>Date: 3/24/20 9:38 PM (GMT-08:00) </div><div>To: Jim Dalke <jim@dalke.com> </div><div>Cc: SBE Chapter 16 Members and Others <sbe16-seattle@sea.sbe16.org> </div><div>Subject: Re: [SBE16-Seattle] Travel Alert for Washington Broadcast Engineers During COVID-19! </div><div><br></div></div><div dir="ltr"><div>
The BRE program is fantastic, but it isn't applicable in the present
situation. All media staff, including engineers, studio operations, and
journalists, are classified as essential workers in the governor's
order. See pages 8-9 in the link below. <br></div><div><a href="https://1y4yclbm79aqghpm1xoezrdw-wpengine.netdna-ssl.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/FINAL-WA-Essential-Critical-Infrastructure-Workers-03.23.2020.pdf">Essential workers</a><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, Mar 24, 2020 at 8:44 PM Jim Dalke via SBE16-Seattle <<a href="mailto:sbe16-seattle@sea.sbe16.org">sbe16-seattle@sea.sbe16.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div lang="EN-US"><div class="gmail-m_2809532126263585352WordSection1"><p class="MsoNormal"><img style="width: 1.5in; height: 1.5208in;" id="gmail-m_2809532126263585352Picture_x0020_2" src="cid:1710ffa68de4ce8e91" alt="A picture containing person, car, man, standing
Description automatically generated" width="144" height="146" onmouseover="imageMousePointerUpdate(true)" onmouseout="imageMousePointerUpdate(false)"><u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">Governor Jay Inslee has issued a “Stay Home – Stay Healthy” order for Washington state and travel restrictions are in place.<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">The First Informer legislation passed by the Washington legislature was designed to permit engineers to access broadcast studio and transmitter facilities during emergency situations like this.<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">Broadcast engineers should have certain documents with them anytime they are traveling to and from their studio and transmitter facilities under the current restrictions.<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">1. Valid drivers license<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">2. Employee identification card, company business card or letter of authorization from employer.<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">3. Business Re-Entry (BRE) Registration card issued to employer.<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">4. Current CISA letter of authorization for access for provider of emergency communications.<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">4. Current CISA letter of authorization for emergency generator fuel for provider of emergency communications.<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:24pt">For more information: <a href="http://www.sbe16.org" target="_blank">www.sbe16.org</a> <u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:24pt"><u></u> <u></u></span></p></div></div>_______________________________________________<br>
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