Maybe, but it would need to be treated as a separate system. I turned Amber Alerts off after being blasted awake at 2am over a missing child five hours away from me. The chances of me ever being able to help in a missing persons case is already incredibly slim. It would be impossible at 2am unless the kidnapper hides under my bed.

The current system is used in a suboptimal way, at least by authorities in my state.

I really hope they don't do this. I already turned off those alerts because there are too many of them.

+1, this system should be improved with a topic based subscription so individuals can opt-in/out of lower level alerts, but keep the ability for local governments to blast everyone in an area for emergencies

AMBER ALERT: Bike lane closure on State Street due to construction, use West Street for detour.

Yeah screw that haha, I'll take the Twitter clone for anything short of actual emergency.