Gainesville asks feds to investigate Alachua County over CARES Act funds (FL)

Text messages between Alachua County’s top two officials link federal CARES Act money intended for distribution to municipal governments to a separate dispute with the city of Gainesville over funding for emergency dispatch services.
City officials say it’s an unfair ploy to use that federal money as leverage, a claim that county officials deny…
Lack of 911 response to severe burns leaves Gardom Lake residents worried (Canada)
Faced with a terrifying emergency, Patty Mead expected to get help when she called 911.
But it was not to be.
Because there is no cell service where Mead lives, she went and grabbed her land-line phone and came back. She called 911 and reached a dispatcher, but no help was to be found…
Cooperation Between Automotive Sector and Public Safety Essential for Further Development of …
According to the latest update on the development of the work within the 3GPP on critical communications earlier this month (hosted by the TCCA), Chairman of 3GPP RAN Balasz Bertenyi said that the technology move from 4G to 5G is not really such a big jump. The biggest challenge for the critical communications community and people that are active in the public safety environment, is to move from digital narrowband to 4G,….and it doesn’t matter from whatever system (TETRA, TETRAPOL or P25) you are migrating from…
Chillicothe Police Department receives grants to improve 911 call service and implement mobile communications center (MO)

Chillicothe/Livingston County E-911 Coordinator Cindy Hanavan applied for and received two grants in 2020 through the Office of Homeland Security/Department of Public Safety for the Next Generation 911. The Chillicothe Police Department reports the federal grants will pay 60% of the total cost of the project, and the city/county pays the other 40%. The total cost of the grants is $63,825. The City of Chillicothe and Livingston County will be responsible for $38,295…

