Opinion No.

Mr. Jack DuBose, Acting Director Office of Emergency Services P.O. Box 758 Conway, AR 72032

Dear Mr. DuBose:

This is in response to your request, on behalf of local emergency services coordinators, for an opinion concerning liability for damages and injuries incurred at disaster shelters. Your questions have been paraphrased as follows:

1. If the County (Judge, Emergency Services Coordinator, or other official) requests that a shelter be opened, who is liable, both before and after the Red Cross takes control of the shelter operations, for damages to the facility, for injuries to sheltered…