to his left is edward robson, an attorney with robson & robson. thank you also for being here. and to his left, martin valentine, senior manager with usaa insurance the very distinguished panel. we thank you all for being with us and we thank all of you in the audience for being with us as we begin. you heard the national alliance for public safety gis mention very briefly. we want to talk about who we are. as you can see where a nonprofit organization. activation of that and that's very important to many of the members of the spam and many of you in the room are practitioners who have worked with us and spent some time in some of the leadership teams and practitioner network that we have run the country. as you can see we done regional leadership teams and have those established at nine fema region. 3000 plus practitioner networks spread across those regions over the last few years. we represent 800 plus state and local agencies, represented in a way to have, too many of our working group sessions and many of our training sessions, and we're happy to have the state record with

our next panelist is edward robson, a practicing attorney with robson and robson base of pennsylvania. advises businesses of all types, nonprofit organization and government agencies. he also represents local public safety agencies including volunteer fire companies and ambulance organizations advising them on a variety of matters including internal governments, standard operating procedure is legal contract negotiations including first amendment issues and personal policies. he has authored several published articles on social media policy for fire departments and risk and liability of public safety agencies relating to their employment policies and social media policies. since 2003 he has served as a volunteer medical technician with the radnor fire company in pennsylvania. prior to joining robson and robson he entered with curtis and letter of the united states district court for the eastern district of pennsylvania and was a law clerk with abrams and of philadelphia civil division. he is a graduate of philadelphia university and received his ph.d. bobby witt from university school

our next panelist is edward robson an attorney with robson and robson llc.e is a practicing attorney with robson and robson based out of pennsylvania. mr. robson advises closely held businesses of all types nonprofit organizations municipalities and local government agencies. he also represents local public safety agencies including volunteer fire companies and ambulance organizations, dicing them on a variety of managing including internal governance standard procedures, equipment purchased in contract negotiations including first amendment issues and personnel policies. he is also authored several published articles on social media policy for local fire departments and the risk and liabilities for local public safety agencies relating to their employment policies and social media policies. since 2003 mr. robson has served as a volunteer emergency medical technician with a rattner fire company located in wayne, pennsylvania. prior to joining robson and robson as a practicing attorney he interned with the honorable j. curtis joyner again i district court for

of britain's worst on rest in decades of political reeses it won't be long before more disorder robson's arrests alone can't solve the deeper fundamental causes. this isn't something that can simply be. streets with water. plastic bullets it isn't something that can be and it isn't something that will be going posing a prison sentence of routine work. for you jailed for six months for stealing a one pound the bottle of water in the united kingdom there is greater inequality. for the last two hundred. days of the slave trade to find such a just for the rich and of course we want you expect if you show people repeatedly the most expensive consumer goods tell them the sell worth the life but their respect from other people will be judged by the degree to which they can obtain those goods and then deny them the ability to get them because the wages also low or out of there are no jobs at all because of endemic politics this is the combustible material that's been building up of what could british society for a generation i don't really the surprise is not the riots happened but the report lo

. >> we're used to pat robson claiming that a international disaster is the rule of god, but he's noto be president of the united states. to blend an yun a candidate who sounded like the almighty and policy implication of having god almighty as your senior adviser, obviously saying it in jest. oh. now she's joking an the fear induced by the earthquake and the destruction wrought by hurricane irene? i'm sure the flooded out folks in new jersey and vermont found bachmann's remarks a real knee slapper. according to my trusty bible, exodus chapter 7 versus 20 says, "thou shalt not take the name of the lord thy god in vain for the lord will not hold him guiltless that taketh his name in vain." bachmann is so busted on that. using the lord's name in vain, stop using the lord's name in vain. wool i can't and won't speak for him or her, i'm sure he or she would appreciate it. so would the american people. my college classmate kathy brings me to another bible verse relevant here. jeremiah chapter 23 verse 16. "this is what the lord almighty says -- do not listen to what the prophets are prophe

robson. you started talking about this issue of liability for the volunteer, technology communities, and the example you gave was a re-tweeted of misleading or misinformation. and that perhaps opening up that community or particular organization to some liability. but i guess i would push you further, and then just curious, and i'm glad we broke this out into kind of a different liabilities for the various communities because i do think there are unique questions. i'm curious as to why did you take that step to liability for the committee as opposed to the individual who initially placed that information out there? kind of recent i was watching the twitter feed through hurricane irene and the recent earthquake. i saw specific individuals, individuals who maybe had 100,000, 1 million followers, several approaches re-tweeted misinformation and later going back apologizing, after it was led that it was misinformation fix on just curious as to why did you stop at that committee aspect and not pla