WAYNESBURG, Pa. (KDKA) — Criminal charges have been dropped against a former Greene County dispatcher accused of refusing to send help to a dying woman.
After more than four decades on the job, 911 Telecommunicator Juana Gilbert answered her final call for assistance early Saturday morning. Communications Supervisor Justin Draper then made the retirement official.
The American Heart Association is applauding the passage of a South Carolina policy named Telecommunicator CPR. On Monday, May 20, Gov. Henry McMaster officially signed a bill requiring all S.C. 911 operators to be trained in Telecommunicator CPR and be able to provide instructions over the phone to persons aiding a victim during an out-of-hospital cardiac arrest.
In Volusia County, dozens of graduating seniors across four high schools passed the 911 Public Safety Telecommunicator certification exam and became licensed with the state.
A local victim of workplace sexual harassment says she is disappointed after her abuser, a former Teton County Sheriff’s Deputy, was given supervised probation for exposing himself to her at work “for hours.”
