Construction is progressing on the expansion and renovation of Culpeper County’s emergency dispatch center, a capital improvement project that county officials say will improve emergency operations, employee training and public meeting space.
Paso Robles’ emergency dispatch center is poised for its first major renovation in more than a decade as the city considers an approximately $767,000 project aimed at expanding dispatch capacity and modernizing the technology behind the city’s emergency response system.
MILWAUKEE – The City of Milwaukee Department of Emergency Communications (DEC) is conducting a review of the handling of an emergency call involving a 99-year-old Milwaukee resident who was attacked in their home on July 27.
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Emergency dispatch services in Pleasant Hill, Missouri, will now be consolidated and moved under a new jurisdiction.
Following Monday evening’s Pleasant Hill City Council meeting, the city announced that dispatch services will transition to the Cass County Sheriff’s Office.
July 27, 2026
Washington D.C. – Today, Representatives Norma Torres (D-CA-35) and Brian Fitzpatrick (R-PA-01), led a bipartisan letter urging Office of Management and Budget (OMB) Director Russell Vought to reclassify public safety telecommunicators under the Protective Service Occupations category in the 2028 update to the Standard Occupational Classification (SOC) system. Torres is a former 9-1-1 dispatcher with the Los Angeles Police Department, while Fitzpatrick is a former FBI agent and EMT.
Staffers at Lyon County Emergency Communications have been dealing with some untoward callers recently.
The department says it has been getting calls from people who are launching offensive or abusive statements to emergency dispatchers because they don’t like unspecified matters unrelated to the department. Emergency Communications Director Roxanne Van Gundy, a guest on KVOE’s Morning Show on Friday, says calls started coming into the non-emergency phone number Thursday morning.
