ANOKA COUNTY, Minn. (FOX 9) – The Anoka County Emergency Communications Center is seeing a sharp uptick in accidental 911 calls.
“From May 5 to June 5 there’s been about 2000 more,” Anoka County Sheriff’s Office Community Relations Coordinator Tierney Peters told FOX 9 on Monday.
NATCHEZ — The county’s Board of Supervisors seems ready to provide some relief in accommodations for the E-911 dispatch center, but members said they need to know if the City of Natchez is going to continue to be a part of the dispatch operations before moving forward.
CHIPPEWA COUNTY, Wis. (WEAU) – The Chippewa County Sheriff’s Office says in a Facebook post they are seeing an uptick in accidental 911 calls.
Here are some tips for preventing accidental 911 calls:
A text-to-911 service New York City launched in June 2020 has been helped emergency officials respond to more than 100,000 unique incidents.
Vallecorsa v. Allegheny Cty., No. 2:19-CV-1495-NR, 2022 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 206720, at *2 (W.D. Pa. Nov. 15, 2022). United States District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania holds that Allegheny County (“County”) did not violate former employee’s First Amendment rights when it terminated her following a public outcry after her private conversation on Facebook about the shooting of a young Black teenager, Antwon Rose, was publicized.
GEORGETOWN, Ky. (FOX 56) — A Scott County 911 dispatcher who was on the job the night deputy Caleb Conley was shot and killed recalled the emotions surrounding it. She and her co-workers took dozens of calls about the shooting in a matter of minutes.
