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The future status of the 911 emergency communications division is somewhat of a side issue in the recently approved county investigation into allegations of wrongdoing in the Ontario County Sheriff’s Office.
Now, the communications division is part of the Sheriff’s Office, and it’s a busy place. In 2020, the 911 center answered 13,039 emergency medical calls and 4,105 fire calls, according to the Sheriff’s Office’s recently released annual report.
The Ontario County Board of Supervisors earlier in the month voted to create a task force to see if that department should stand alone, work independently from the Sheriff’s Office in some other way or keep the status quo…
