Albany County officials are hailing a pilot program augmenting 911 services a success.
Officials gathered Friday to share results gleaned from statistics analyzed pertaining to the Albany County Crisis Officials Responding and Diverting initiative, known by the acronym ACCORD.
Emergency dispatch centers in McLean County will start a new text-to-911 service next week.
While members of an activist group seek changes to the Columbus police response to mental health crises to limit potentially deadline outcomes, the city of Columbus announced on Monday that it is expanding a pilot 911 response unit program begun a year ago.
When you have an emergency, help is just a phone call away but filling vacancies in dispatch centers across the state is becoming increasingly difficult.
