by AllThingsECC.com | Jun 10, 2024 | Comm Center News
WASHINGTON, D.C.—While in-building coverage for cellular and public safety Land Mobile Radio (LMR) systems is a challenge across building use types, it is a particularly urgent one in schools. At last week’s Safer Buildings Coalition Tech and Policy Summit, the issues surrounding first responder communications in school buildings were the front-and-center focus, with Lori Alhadeff, co-founder of the Make Our Schools Safe organization, bringing the matter home by sharing the story of her daughter, Alyssa Alhadeff, who was killed during the 2018 shooting massacre at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida. Alhadeff and her husband have since been advocating for better school emergency communications through mandating the availability of silent panic buttons in schools, with a number of states adopting or considering “Alyssa’s Law.”
by AllThingsECC.com | Jun 5, 2024 | Comm Center News
In the first year of a Ramsey County initiative aimed at better responding to mental health related 911 calls, the number of calls transferred to professionals trained in such crises, in place of dispatching traditional first responders, nearly doubled, according to data released on Tuesday.
by AllThingsECC.com | Jun 3, 2024 | Comm Center News
An emergency service provider in West Des Moines said the statewide telecommunications outage Thursday that impacted internet and landline phones services was unavoidable — and they might not be able to prevent it from happening again.
by AllThingsECC.com | May 30, 2024 | Comm Center News
CHARLESTON COUNTY, S.C. (WCBD) — The Charleston County Consolidated Emergency Communications Center is one step closer to grand funding to improve violence prevention.
by AllThingsECC.com | May 30, 2024 | Comm Center News
The 911 Governing Board, which oversees the Barren-Metcalfe Emergency Communications Center, convened on Tuesday to discuss critical issues affecting the center’s operations. The meeting, held at the communications center in Glasgow, featured a review of the proposed 2024-25 budget and a contentious debate over the redrawing of the counties’ interlocal agreement.
