On Wednesday, April 6, Governor Kathy Hochul announced $62.4 million in funds for emergency communications and interoperability infrastructure available to counties across New York State.
Individual counties can apply for the 2022 Statewide Interoperable Communications Targeted Grant Program (SICG) for funding to “improve infrastructure, address communications deficiencies, implement national interoperability channels, and enhance regional connectivity between counties and systems,” according to a press release…
CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa (KCRG) -A new system is in place to help those calling 911 in Linn County. The Linn County Sheriff’s Office implemented the Priority Dispatch System last month.
Dispatchers at the sheriff’s office answer thousands of 911 calls every year from all of the county. While cities like Cedar Rapids and Marion have their own dispatchers, calls from outside those cities are handled at the sheriff’s office…
I am disappointed that I cannot find the archived article I wrote a number of years ago and published on April Fool’s Day. I had described how I was at a restaurant in Silicon Valley and at the table next to me were some Microsoft and FCC executives. I reported that they were discussing how Microsoft could buy the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) and have access to all the spectrum the FCC controlled. The article went into detail and some readers fell for it. This year I will be sticking to facts and truth!
More IWCE 2022
As I said last week, it was great to be able to attend IWCE again. Yes, the number of attendees and exhibitors were down from pre-Covid years but I am confident that next year, unless there is yet another outbreak of the virus, IWCE should be back where it was a few years and perhaps larger…
SIDNEY — The unsung heroes of the Sidney Police Department lay in the dispatchers; something many officers consider the first life-line that people reach when trying to contact emergency services.
“Odds are, there are two people you’ll call when things go really wrong: the one family member or trusted friend that’s been there through everything and one of our 911 dispatchers,” Sidney Police Officer Rachel Croskrey said…
Iredell County commissioners spent more than two hours Tuesday digging into a consultants’ operational assessment of the Emergency Communications Center.
County officials commissioned the $178,000 study in response to significant criticism of ECOM’s performance by public safety agencies throughout the county as well as ongoing criticism of the department’s handling of emergency calls by popular social media outlet Iredell Firewire and some of its 52,000 followers…
Learn about current efforts to continue to protect the 4.9 GHz Band for public safety as well as recent filings, key decisions impacting these efforts, and how you can support PSSA’s initiative to protect the 4.9 GHz band for public safety.
