The Senate Appropriations Committee has approved a bill requiring 911 public safety operators to complete telecommunicator cardiopulmonary resuscitation training every two years.
Filed by Sen. Danny Burgess, SB 890 is now ready for full Senate consideration. Its counterpart (HB 593), filed by Rep. Dana Trabulsy, could be considered by the full House on Thursday. The bills are similar but not identical…
Six counties from across Maryland staged a 9-1-1 expo with live call-taking from a remote and crowded location using FirstNet. The expo was conducted at the Maryland Association of Counties’ winter conference.
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By John Hunt, Senior Public Safety Advisor and 9-1-1/Emergency Communications Expert, First Responder Network Authority and Lori Stone, Senior Public Safety Advisor, First Responder Network Authority
If the 9-1-1 community learned anything from the pandemic, it’s the need to plan for alternate ways to work. Rather than be tied to workstations at fixed locations, 9-1-1 telecommunicators need flexibility to remotely take, dispatch, and supervise calls. In December 2021, Maryland telecommunicators put FirstNet, America’s public safety broadband network, to the test, demonstrating the network’s connectivity and reliability during remote operations….
CALEXICO — For the past few months, Calexico Police Department traffic controllers have been utilizing push-to-talk radios that have benefited the department in several ways.
The radios replaced Motorola radios that were not connected to the local Regional Communication Services system that the city’s police, Fire Department and public safety dispatchers are connected to, thereby expanding the city’s interoperable communication services.
The radios, supplied by AT&T through its FirstNet system, also can be utilized by patrol officers in the event that the Regional Communication Services (RCS) becomes inoperable, thereby providing the department with a backup emergency communication system…
FirstNet subscribers have access to the wireless network with the largest coverage footprint in the United States by more than 50,000 square miles, AT&T stated this week as part of press announcement released on the 10th anniversary of the FirstNet Authority being created.
Jason Porter, president of AT&T’s public-sector and FirstNet business units, said AT&T—the FirstNet Authority’s contractor building the nationwide public-safety broadband network (NPSBN)—has spent more than $130 billion on wireless infrastructure and spectrum in the five years since being awarded the FirstNet contract in March 2017…
OGDENSBURG — Beginning in June, anyone who calls the Ogdensburg Police Department with an emergency will be advised to hang up and dial 911, the latest move by the city as it works to transfer its police dispatching to St. Lawrence County.
On Wednesday, St. Lawrence County Attorney Stephen D. Button was notified in a letter written by Cheryl I. Sacco with Coughlin & Gerhart LLP, a firm representing the city, that it will “cease providing City Police Dispatch and the County needs to handle Police dispatch obligations in the same manner that it does Fire and EMS calls from the City…
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.
