by AllThingsECC.com | Jun 25, 2020 | Comm Center News
| The NENA 3D GIS working group will produce a document that will define requirements and guidelines for handling of expression of caller location in three dimensions (X/Y/Z coordinates), including confidence and uncertainty. These guidelines will include methods to convert a height above ellipsoid (HAE) value to height about ground level (AGL) or floor level, so that the information is more meaningful in the field, as well as guidelines to construct GIS datasets that can handle three dimensional location data, such as road or building geometry… |
by ECC Editor | Jun 25, 2020 | Comm Center News
In 911 jargon, the unicorn call, or white buffalo call, means a rare call, one most telecommunicators never get.
Early in the day on Friday, May 1, Monica McCullough, with less than two years of experience as a telecommunicator at the Williamson County Communications Center, located in the Public Safety Center, answered one such call… READ MORE
by AllThingsECC.com | Jun 25, 2020 | Articles, Comm Center News
By Charlotte Whitacre, Senior Public Safety Advisor, Federal & National Programs Public Safety Advocacy, First Responder Network Authority
In the midst of battling wildfires or administering life-saving medical care, first responders should not be burdened with the intricacies behind a secure communications system. Now with FirstNet, public safety can rest assured the nationwide wireless broadband network offers a comprehensive communications solution that navigates security and authentication procedures so first responders can focus on doing their jobs. READ MORE
by AllThingsECC.com | Jun 25, 2020 | Articles, Comm Center News
When FirstNet was signed into law, The FirstNet Authority was created as an independent authority reporting to the National Telecommunications and Information Agency (NTIA) under the U.S. Department of Commerce (DOC). It was funded with $7 Billion not from the U.S. Treasury but from proceeds of future spectrum auctions. Designed to be a public/private partnership, FirstNet recognized that the $7 Billion funding was only a “starter kit” to defray some but certainly not all FirstNet network build costs and development of The FirstNet Authority…
by AllThingsECC.com | Jun 25, 2020 | Comm Center News
A Combined Communications Center worker must serve a 60-hour suspension for social media comments deemed unbecoming of a sheriff’s office employee.
An Alachua County 911 dispatcher was suspended for 60 hours without pay Wednesday by Sheriff Sadie Darnell for comments she made on social media.
The posts by Ashley Mauger, who works in the Combined Communications Center, represented conduct unbecoming an employee of the sheriff’s office, an internal investigation found…
by ECC Editor | Jun 25, 2020 | Comm Center News
OAKLAND — In April 2019, an Oakland police officer was stabbed in the neck as he was coming off his shift and walking to his car two blocks from the police station.
Bleeding from the attack, he called 911 on his cellphone, but he couldn’t get through despite trying several times. So in desperation, he called another cop working in an Alameda County building a mile away… READ MORE
