A year into its implementation of next generation 911, Arizona officials see promising improvements for public safety responses.
The state’s Department of Administration has worked for the past several years to transition the state’s 911 system from a landline-based infrastructure to a digital one to improve system resiliency, caller location services and telecommunications capabilities between callers and dispatchers.
LINCOLN, Neb. (KOLN) – The Lincoln Police Department is investigating a series of fictitious emergency calls involving false reports of fires across the city at several homes and an LPS high school.
Over the past month, the 911 Emergency Communications Center has received at least eight hoax calls, including four since Monday afternoon.
The public wasn’t notified about a 911 outage until about three hours after problems began because the Honolulu Police Department was struggling to come up with an alternate means of communication, officials said Monday.
Police are investigating what caused the 911 outage and failure of the regular backup system.
After years of missed deadlines and documented safety issues surrounding the rollout of California’s Next Generation 911 system, project insiders are now speaking out, saying they feel compelled to warn the public about “major problems” with the years-long overhaul that has cost Californians nearly a half-billion dollars and counting.
California is in the midst of a massive overhaul of its aging, landline-based 9-1-1 emergency call system, with project leaders promising the ground-breaking “Next Generation 911” (NG911) network will suffer fewer outages, deliver improved location accuracy, and better connect more than 440 emergency call centers across the state.
