by AllThingsECC.com | Aug 4, 2021 | Comm Center News
I’m combining two recent announcements on state funds allocated for Southborough. Funding is related to water infrastructure and equipment for public safety departments.
Last week, Representative Carolyn Dykema’s office shared news on the approved state budget for FY22. In addition to touting statewide budget priorities, the release itemized appropriations secured for towns in her district. For Southborough those were $25,000 for water infrastructure improvements and another $25,000 for equipment for the Southborough Fire Department.
This week, Community Advocate reported that the Southborough Police Department secured a state grant for two needed portable radios…
by AllThingsECC.com | Aug 4, 2021 | Comm Center News
Martha’s Vineyard is facing another slew of accidental 911 calls this summer season. With the population swell the Island experiences during the summer, the Regional Emergency Communications Center (RECC) is fielding more calls, creating struggles for the Island’s police departments, Edgartown Police Chief Bruce McNamee told the Times.
According to the numbers McNamee provided, the issue puts a particular strain on the down-Island departments of Edgartown, Oak Bluffs, and Tisbury. McNamee said July is usually the worst for accidental 911 calls. Edgartown and Oak Bluffs experience an especially big number of calls compared to the others. The total number of 911 calls in July were 270 for Edgartown, 246 for Oak Bluffs, 117 for Tisbury, 55 for West Tisbury, 58 for Chilmark, and 22 for Aquinnah…
by AllThingsECC.com | Aug 4, 2021 | Articles, Comm Center News
Wireless carriers and public-safety organizations weighed in on the FCC’s proposal for changing its rules governing notification of disruptions to 9-1-1 service to public-safety answering points (PSAPs).
In April, the FCC released a third notice of proposed rulemaking (NPRM) proposing changes to its notification requirements. Those changes included harmonizing PSAP outage notifications, mandating the delivery of specific information, requiring carriers to notify consumers of 9-1-1 outages and establishing a timeframe for notification of PSAPs.
Telecommunications service providers and the organizations representing them said that they support the FCC’s goal of improving outage notifications to PSAPs but expressed concerns about several of the proposed rules including the timeframe for providing notice of an outage to PSAPs and a requirement to notify customers of 9-1-1 outages….
by AllThingsECC.com | Aug 4, 2021 | Comm Center News
SALT LAKE CITY (ABC4) – A former Utah dispatcher has been arrested for possession of child pornography.
Court records show an arrest warrant was issued in Utah for 34-year-old Rex Long’s arrest.
He was booked into the Salt Lake County Jail on July 29 on the warrant from the U.S. Marshals office in Alabama. Long was an employee with VECC, the Salt Lake Valley Emergency Communications Center, a dispatch agency serving emergency responders across Salt Lake County…
by AllThingsECC.com | Aug 4, 2021 | Comm Center News
Law enforcement has a responsibility to respond to 911 calls for service and we do so every day.
Many of those 911 calls end up being hang-ups in which someone calls 911 accidentally. Other times individuals call 911 and then hang up because they need assistance, but might not be able to speak because they are intimidated by someone else who does not want them to report an incident. As a result, we must respond to 911 hang-ups to ensure everyone who calls receives help if they need it…
