Yeah, it's literally the NYC Office of Emergency Management. Their whole jam is being prepared for disasters. NYC has seen enough of them already that they need an agency that can respond faster and more fit to the city's needs than FEMA.

How about option 4: we unfortunately live in a world with nuclear weapons which are controlled by humans and humans are not always predictable . Its good practice to communicate the emergency plan well in advance of needing it.

Maybe but that job requires a basic understanding of public perception, so they must know how it could be perceived, yet they did nothing to account for that.