NEW ORLEANS —The City of New Orleans Department of Economic Development, in partnership with the Orleans Parish Communication District (OPCD), today announced the Federal Communications Commission’s (FCC) deadline of Jan. 6, 2021 for businesses and organizations to bring their telephone systems into federal compliance in accordance with Kari’s Law and the Ray BAUM’s Act.
The FCC announced the deadlines for businesses and organizations to bring their phone systems into federal compliance, which, in part, mandates that no prefix (dialing 9 to get an outside line) be required when dialing 9-1-1, a centralized location within the building be notified when someone dials 9-1-1 from that location, and that a dispatchable location with specific information be transmitted to the 9-1-1 center… READ MORE
