Cammack Launches NextGen 911 Caucus (FL)

by | Jul 22, 2025 | Comm Center News

Representative Kat Cammack (R-FL) is launching the new NextGen 911 Caucus in the House of Representatives, which aims to enhance first responders’ ability to respond to calls.

As her press release explained, public safety telecommunicators (PSTs) operate in over 6,000 call centers nationwide, but face numerous challenges, not only from increased call volumes and new crises to which they must deploy first responders, but also because these calls are made on outdated technology and with insufficient staff to handle them all.

Idaho plans emergency system overhaul through ‘Next Generation 911’

by | Jul 15, 2025 | Comm Center News

Next Generation 911 infrastructure will allow residents to send pictures and video to dispatch. The new technology also provides more precise location data.

BOISE, Idaho — The Gem State is moving forward with a major modernization of its emergency response system after the Idaho Public Safety Communications Commission approved $15 million in grant funding for Next Generation 911 technology.

Florida county leads the way with a high-tech 911 system for emergency response

by | Jul 15, 2025 | Comm Center News

NAPLES, Fla. — When an emergency happens in Collier County, Florida, the 911 calls go to one of the most high-tech communications centers in the U.S., where callers can send text and video from the scene to dispatchers.

Moving to what’s known as an NG911 — or Next Generation 911 — system is a journey Sheriff Kevin Rambosk and Bob Finney, the county’s director of communication, have been on for much of the past decade.

Auburn Text-to-911 program played crucial role in saving nonverbal woman from burning home (AL)

by | Jul 14, 2025 | Comm Center News

Auburn fire and communications personnel were recognized on Friday for their actions in rescuing a woman with paraplegia from her burning home, and dispatchers said Auburn Public Safety’s Text-to-911 program played a critical role.

A dozen personnel with the Auburn Fire Department and Auburn Public Safety communications were recognized by Piedmont Columbus Regional on Friday as the First Friday Heroes for the month of July for their work in saving a woman with paraplegia from her burning home in April. Catherine Griffith was working as a public safety telecommunicator at the time and said the Text-to-911 program was needed in this particular situation because the survivor is nonverbal.