Lake County Emergency Services Telecommunicators Scholarship program moves forward (OH)

Lake County Emergency Services Telecommunicators Scholarship program moves forward (OH)

The program has moved from the pilot phase to its inaugural class to train the next generation of telecommunicators and will be offered to qualifying students enrolled in Auburn Career Center’s Emergency Services Telecommunicators program.

The board provided funding in 2020 and has been looking to establish a scholarship program to grow enrollment, noted Commissioner John Hamercheck…

Legislators reintroduce bill to change job classification of 911 dispatchers nationwide

Legislators reintroduce bill to change job classification of 911 dispatchers nationwide

WASHINGTON — Legislators have reintroduced a bill in Congress that would change the job classification of 911 dispatchers nationwide. 

The 911 SAVES Act would classify 911 dispatchers under “protective service occupations” instead of “office and administrative support occupations,” adding them to the same category as firefighters, law enforcement officers, corrections officers and other public safety staff. (EMS providers are classified under healthcare occupations.)… 

FirstNet & 5G: An Experience Unlike Anything Else for America’s First Responders

FirstNet & 5G: An Experience Unlike Anything Else for America’s First Responders

DALLAS, April 1, 2021 /PRNewswire/ — What’s the news? As public safety’s partner, AT&T* is committed to evolving FirstNet® to meet first responders’ needs and supporting innovative new technologies to help them stay mission ready. That’s why we’re announcing 3 major milestones for FirstNet, the only network built with public safety, for public safety:

  1. A first responder-centric approach to 5G
  2. Bringing comprehensive tower-to-core network encryption
  3. The FirstNet Health & Wellness Coalition to better support responders holistically…

Bandwidth Delivers 911 Capabilities to More than 20 Million Enterprise Users

RALEIGH, N.C., March 30, 2021 /PRNewswire/ — Bandwidth Inc. (NASDAQ: BAND), a software company focused on communications for the enterprise, today announced surpassing a key milestone of over 20 million 911 endpoints under management across the U.S. and Canada. The industry-disrupting 911 call routing provider, long known for delivering a comprehensive suite of highly-reliable emergency services solutions, has seen dramatic growth in recent years stemming from its full service support for new and complex E911 regulations like Kari’s Law and RAY BAUM’s Act…

Fairhaven police honor officer by naming Emergency 911 Dispatch Center after him (CT)

Fairhaven police honor officer by naming Emergency 911 Dispatch Center after him (CT)

FAIRHAVEN — The Police Department’s Emergency 911 Dispatch Center will forever be named now after former office Michael A. “Sully” Sullivan.

At the March 22 Board of Selectmen meeting Police Chief Michael Myers discussed the career of Sullivan.  Sullivan served 22 years in the Army before coming to the Fairhaven Police Department on March 22, 1999.

For the next 18 years he served as the main dispatcher for the department…