by AllThingsECC.com | Oct 29, 2020 | Comm Center News
ST. LOUIS — Places like New York, Houston, Baltimore and Tucson, Arizona are bringing mental health workers into the fold when it comes to answering 911 calls – and now, so is St. Louis.
This month, the Board of Alderman approved a plan to take $860,000 away from the city’s jail budget and use it to divert some 911 calls to crisis intervention experts instead of dispatching emergency responders. The program, known as the 911 Diversion and Co-Responder Program will also pair mental health workers with police responding to crisis situations on the streets…
by AllThingsECC.com | Oct 29, 2020 | Comm Center News
ELYRIA — Lorain County residents may now text 911 emergency dispatchers instead of calling them when calling might put them in more danger.
Tracey Lopez, director of Lorain County 911, told Lorain County commissioners at their meeting Wednesday that emergency texting now is available to county residents. Lorain County is now one of 22 counties in Ohio with “Text-to-911” service…
by AllThingsECC.com | Oct 29, 2020 | Comm Center News
MADISON, Wis. — Dane County Executive Joe Parisi announced Wednesday the new director for the county’s Department of Public Safety Communications.
Luis Bixler was a former supervisor for the county’s 911 center and named 911 Telecommunicator of the Year for the state of Wisconsin in 2009. According to a news release, Bixler also served as Secretary for the state’s Association of Public Safety Communications Officials and a Public Safety Communications Center liaison to the Madison Police Department…
by ECC Editor | Oct 29, 2020 | Comm Center News
Berkeley Police Department has added text-to-911 services and improved 911 location identification services to its 911 communications center, according to a BPD press release.
The two features will enable first responders to receive “more accurate information” regarding the location of emergency calls and will reduce the amount of time spent on unintentional emergency calls, the press release stated… READ MORE
by ECC Editor | Oct 29, 2020 | Comm Center News
West Monroe police officer Brittany LeJeune takes a phone call to the police department, speaking through a headset while facing four computer screens stacked like a wall above her.
Sitting behind her in the same room, two 911 dispatchers receive emergency calls for a fire and a stabbing at Parkview Apartments in Monroe… READ MORE
by AllThingsECC.com | Oct 29, 2020 | Comm Center News
GREEN COVE SPRINGS – The of County Commissioners is looking at the purchase of three buildings for $8.7 million.
The county has been working to navigate the federal and state pathways of the CARES Act to get funding to local nonprofits, businesses and individuals. It’s also been looking into using the funding to build a new health department. The commission narrowed its search to two buildings, but a third building might come with it at a discounted rate, the commission learned during its Oct. 27 meeting…
