by AllThingsECC.com | Oct 30, 2019 | Comm Center News
On Monday, three female fire dispatchers working for the Jefferson Parish East Bank Consolidated Fire Protection Bureau filed suit claiming an ongoing practice of gender discrimination and retaliation at the Jefferson Parish Fire Protection Bureau’s Emergency Communications Division.
The three women have a combined fifty-three years of employment at the Bureau. According to the complaint filed in New Orleans federal court, Communications Supervisor Robert Funk denied female employees at the Bureau training and equipment that was provided…
by AllThingsECC.com | Oct 30, 2019 | Articles, Comm Center News |
Publication of next week’s Advocate will be delayed a few days while I attend the International Association of Chiefs of Police (IACP) annual conference/convention in Chicago beginning Saturday.
Next year I also plan to attend the International Association of Fire Chiefs (IAFC) and the National Sheriff’s Association (NSA) conferences. Even though I am an affiliate member of both…
by AllThingsECC.com | Oct 30, 2019 | Comm Center News
During Monday’s Plano City Council preliminary open meeting, Public Safety Communications (PSC) Department Director Susan Carr updated the council on the department and announced the city has fully launched Text to 9-1-1.
Carr said the service can cover many circumstances where a person who finds themselves in an emergency doesn’t have the ability…
by AllThingsECC.com | Oct 29, 2019 | Comm Center News
SAN DIEGO – Late October often brings Santa Ana winds and 911 calls to San Diego County. Emergency dispatcher Juliana Rubio knows about both.
“Oh yeah, it can be a bit overwhelming,” Rubio said.
She has been working as a dispatcher for 31 years. With an experienced staff, the county’s dispatch center in Kearny Mesa can answer an emergency call and dispatch a crew faster than most.
“Thirty seconds or less…
by AllThingsECC.com | Oct 29, 2019 | Comm Center News
A judge on Tuesday heard arguments over whether the Calhoun County Emergency Management Communications District and one of its dispatchers should be dismissed from a wrongful death lawsuit filed by the husband of a woman who died in 2016.
Attorneys asked Circuit Judge Bud Turner to determine whether the district and Donna Williamson, who was a dispatcher with the district, were liable…
by AllThingsECC.com | Oct 29, 2019 | Comm Center News
ALBANY, N.Y. (WRGB) – Albany Police Officers Union President Greg McGee says Albany dispatchers are still being overworked, because they’re still understaffed.
“One of the dispatchers just updated me, and he’s had 47 mandatories as of yesterday. He’s done 48 hours of work in the last three days,” McGee said.
It’s now been 5 weeks since he sent a letter to Mayor Kathy Sheehan alerting her to their desperate situation.
When CBS6’s Emily DeFeciani asked….
