by AllThingsECC.com | Nov 5, 2025 | Comm Center News
VERNON COUNTY, Wis. – The Vernon County Sheriff’s Office notified Vernon County residents on Tuesday that the Sheriff’s Office 911 Communications Center has begun a two day transition to Next Generation 911. The transition to a new system is the culmination of a process over several years that involved multiple county departments (Sheriff’s Office, Land Information, Emergency Management, Information Technology) to assist with the installation of new hardware and software to get the system operational.
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by AllThingsECC.com | Nov 4, 2025 | Comm Center News
Columbia County Sheriff Leroy Martin said if changes aren’t made to increase the eight dispatcher’s salaries for the county, the situation could become a crisis.
Martin spoke to the Columbia County Quorum Court Budget Committee recently, saying that increasing dispatchers’ salaries is imperative to law enforcement in Columbia County, he said.
“It’s going to be a crisis, you can’t wait until you can see it coming down the road,” Martin said.
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by AllThingsECC.com | Nov 4, 2025 | Comm Center News
On Monday, Nov. 3, the Commission approved an agreement with the Communications Workers of America (CWA) to provide dispatchers a temporary retention payment as an incentive for experienced personnel to stay until the pay increase begins, while they continue to address the staffing shortage.
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by AllThingsECC.com | Nov 1, 2025 | Comm Center News
The Senate Corporations, Elections & Political Subdivisions Committee voted to advance Senate File 57, a measure to adjust 9-1-1 reporting and add the Public Safety Communications Commission (PSCC) as a recipient of outage and funding reports.
The bill directs a Wyoming rulemaking process to set reporting parameters for 9-1-1 outages and shifts certain 9-1-1 fee collection and expenditure reporting from fiscal-year to calendar-year reporting to align state reporting with federal requirements and grant eligibility.
by AllThingsECC.com | Oct 30, 2025 | Comm Center News
Medford Fire Chief Eric Thompson said the agreement with PSTC resolved difficult communications challenges facing the city’s public-safety LMR network, the water commission’s radio system, and coverage gaps realized by subscribers of FirstNet, which is built and operated by cellular carrier AT&T.
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by AllThingsECC.com | Oct 23, 2025 | Comm Center News
The Honolulu Police Department has begun paying dispatchers and other 911 staff up to $2,000 per month in retention bonuses, but some employees of the long understaffed communications division say it’s too little, too late.
The bonuses, which vary according to job title, have been approved through the end of June, but HPD said it plans to propose continuing it through the next fiscal year.
