by AllThingsECC.com | Apr 20, 2022 | Comm Center News
GRAND CANYON, Ariz. — In honor of National Public Safety Telecommunicators week, Grand Canyon Regional Communication Center was recognized by Grand Canyon National Park last week.
GCRCC is the primary 9-1-1 public safety answering point and dispatch operation for Grand Canyon, the town of Tusayan and portions of Coconino County, according to the NPS.
The 9-1-1 Center which operates 24/7, 365 days a year, is staffed by eight dispatchers and one center manager. This staff provides dispatch services for all of Grand Canyon as well as for Montezuma Castle National Monument, Tuzigoot National Monument, Montezuma’s Well, Tonto National Monument, Petroglyph National Monument and Pecos National Historical Park…
by AllThingsECC.com | Apr 20, 2022 | Comm Center News
TEXARKANA, Ark. — A decision by the Arkansas 911 Board to streamline Public Safety Answering Points, or 911 centers, could leave Miller County and Texarkana, Arkansas, with a joint emergency dispatch center.
State board members agreed Tuesday to give both the county and Texarkana, Arkansas, 60 days to come up with a plan that could allow for both to use the county’s PSAP system, said Carla Jenkins, Miller County judge’s administrative assistant…
by AllThingsECC.com | Apr 20, 2022 | Articles, Comm Center News
Emergency dispatch technology provider Prepared has raised $9.8 million in a seed funding round — fresh capital that amounts to a new bet on the growth of real-time and livestreamed 911 call data, and providing free tools to get there.
Prepared was founded in 2019 in New Haven, Conn., by three Yale University students and focuses on getting livestreamed and other real-time, “advanced data” from mobile 911 callers to dispatchers.
The tool fits into the larger trend of — and ongoing investor interest in — deploying technology that better serves the emergency response needs of mobile callers, and which allows more data to make its way to first responders in quick fashion…
by AllThingsECC.com | Apr 20, 2022 | Comm Center News
The Lawrence County Quorum Court met on April 11 and reviewed a proclamation from Arkansas Governor Asa Hutchinson that proclaimed April 10-16 as Public Safety Telecommunicators’ Week.
The proclamation stated, “In an emergency, most Arkansans depend on calling the emergency phone number 911. Each day, public safety telecommunicators answer desperate calls for help, responding with services that save the lives and property of Arkansas citizens in need of assistance. Arkansans place their trust in these individuals, not just this week, but every day of the year…
by AllThingsECC.com | Apr 20, 2022 | Comm Center News
A bill authored by Sen. Josh Becker, D-Menlo Park, that would require law enforcement agencies throughout California to find alternatives to encrypting their radio communications cleared its first hurdle Tuesday when the Senate Public Safety Committee voted to advance the legislation.
Becker’s legislation, Senate Bill 1000, responds to a recent trend of police departments throughout the state moving to encrypted radio communications, a switch that makes it impossible for journalists and other residents to monitor police activities. Palo Alto, which switched to an encrypted channel in January 2021, was among the early adopters. Almost every other police department in Santa Clara County has since made the switch…
