Court Rules That Inflammatory Social Media Posts by a Public Employee (Dispatcher) Are Not Protected (PA)

Vallecorsa v. Allegheny Cty., No. 2:19-CV-1495-NR, 2022 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 206720, at *2 (W.D. Pa. Nov. 15, 2022).  United States District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania holds that Allegheny County (“County”) did not violate former employee’s First Amendment rights when it terminated her following a public outcry after her private conversation on Facebook about the shooting of a young Black teenager, Antwon Rose, was publicized.

City of Atlanta Awards Multi-Year Contract to Carbyne and Goes Live with New System to … (GA)

With Carbyne’s advanced emergency collaboration platform, Atlanta will be able to deliver faster, more accurate emergency response and ultimately save lives

NEW YORK, May 31, 2023 – Carbyne, the leading provider of cloud-native public safety communications, today announced that the City of Atlanta, Georgia is now live on the Carbyne Platform, which equips the city’s 9-1-1 call center with enhanced capabilities for faster, more efficient, and accurate emergency response.