A county in Virginia turned off the radios, and the promise that replaced them has a hole in it you can count.
That is the story worth starting with this week, because it is the one that will play out in a lot of other places over the next year. A law enforcement organization makes a defensible operational decision, commits publicly to transparency through other channels, and then discovers that the other channels were never resourced to carry the weight. The gap shows up in a reporter's spreadsheet.
This week's edition also looks at an election-week information vacuum that local communicators are being asked to fill themselves, and a national alert test two weeks out that most organizations still have no message for.<