by AllThingsECC.com | Sep 17, 2021 | Articles, Comm Center News
After the article about the lack of data interoperability across the FirstNet (Built with AT&T) network appeared last week in the Advocate, I received comments indicating that serious work has indeed been undertaken to address this issue. I hope to be able to provide more information in coming weeks.
Meanwhile, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has been busy. After its September meeting, it appears that a Further Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (FNPRM) for the 4.9-GHz spectrum will be released for comments. The FCC will also act on the 6-GHz sharing of licensed microwave with unlicensed Wi-Fi 6 users…
by AllThingsECC.com | Sep 17, 2021 | Comm Center News
Flathead County property owners will begin seeing a new assessment supporting the consolidated 911 dispatch center on tax bills that go out in November.
Flathead County voters approved a ballot measure in the November 2020 general election that taxes property owners to pay the cost of emergency dispatch and supporting communication services, equipment and infrastructure for the county and its municipalities. The taxes will be payable semi-annually in two equal payments.
City councils in all three incorporated cities in Flathead County — Kalispell, Columbia Falls and Whitefish — had passed resolutions in support of the levy…
by AllThingsECC.com | Sep 17, 2021 | Comm Center News
Corky Martin started his 26-year career in law enforcement in 1991 as a jailer at the old detention center adjacent to the Garland County Sheriff’s Department.
He’s still working there 30 years later, but in a much different role. He’s director of the Garland County 911 Communications Center, which went live in the booking area of the old jail in 2018 and ushered in a new era of public safety communications in the county.
In 2017, the county began building the new facility and migrating its communications system from an analog platform to the Arkansas Wireless Information Network’s 700-800 MHz frequency digital microwave-based interoperable system. At the same time, responsibility for answering 911 calls and dispatching emergency personnel shifted from the sheriff’s department to the county’s Office of Emergency Management…
by AllThingsECC.com | Sep 16, 2021 | Comm Center News
By Anna Johnson
The News & Observer (Raleigh, N.C.)
RALEIGH, N.C. — City of Raleigh employees seeking promotions will need to be vaccinated against COVID-19, according to a recent city memo.
The city’s 4,000 employees must be vaccinated by Friday or start weekly testing. If testing is refused, the employee will face “progressive discipline,” according to an email to employees sent in mid-August.
Now the city plans to limit promotions to those vaccinated, according to a memo sent last week to the Raleigh Police Department.
“The decision requiring promoted employees to be vaccinated was recently made by city leadership and applies to the entire organization,” said Sherry Hunter, the police department’s administrative services division commander…
by AllThingsECC.com | Sep 16, 2021 | Comm Center News
WEARE TWP. — A trial period of how medical responses are dispatched came to a close after a vote was taken during a regular meeting Wednesday morning of the Mason-Oceana 911 Board at the dispatch center.
The 90-day trial period involved having medical calls into Mason-Oceana 911 conferenced into Life EMS’s dispatch center in Grand Rapids. Life EMS dispatchers would set the call’s priority — from one to three, with one being the most severe.
Previously, Mason-Oceana 911 would set the priority…
