Hamilton County 911 Emergency Communications District Donates $6,000 To Forgotten Child Fund (TN)

Hamilton County 911 Emergency Communications District on Friday will be donating a check of $6,000 to the Forgotten Child Fund during their last big Toy and Money Drive of the year. 

The funds were raised by the Telecommunicators and Staff at Hamilton County 911-ECD throughout the year during various fundraisers, spearheaded by the Cares Committee. The Cares Committee is a group of Telecommunicator representatives from all three shifts that coordinate fundraising activities to help benefit those in need throughout the community. This is the fifth year that the Cares Committee has donated to the Forgotten Child Fund… READ MORE 

Albany County announces state funding to expand pilot program that improves emergency dispatch and response related to mental health (NY)

 ALBANY – The Albany County Crisis Officials Responding and Diverting (ACCORD) program, designed to improve outcomes for nonviolent emergency calls, will be expanding in 2022 due to a significant financial commitment from New York State.

On Thursday, Albany County Legislature Chairman Andrew Joyce, Legislator Matthew Peter, County Executive Daniel P. McCoy, Sheriff Craig Apple and Department of Mental Health Director Dr. Stephen Giordano joined Assemblymember John T. McDonald to announce a $350,000 investment from the State to help ACCORD expand into participating municipalities throughout the County and offset costs for staffing, equipment and training…

AG: CenturyLink responsible for widespread Washington 911 outage in 2018

AG: CenturyLink responsible for widespread Washington 911 outage in 2018

Washington Attorney General Bob Ferguson testified that CenturyLink is responsible for “many of the technological failures that caused the widespread 911 outage in December 2018.”

According to Ferguson’s office, more than 10,700 calls were blocked from reaching 911 dispatch during the outage that disrupted emergency communications intermittently for nearly 50 hours.

The outage began the morning of Dec. 27, 2018. Officials said a failure in the company’s fiber-optic network caused the disruption…

Improvements Made To Kosciusko County 911 Dispatch Center (IN)

Improvements Made To Kosciusko County 911 Dispatch Center (IN)

WARSAW — The Kosciusko County 911 Dispatch Center recently got a much-needed facelift.

The Kosciusko Communications Center handles all radio communications for police, fire and emergency medical services in Kosciusko County. In August 2000 it combined with Warsaw Police Department to become Kosciusko Central Dispatch. County commissioners, County Administrator Marsha McSherry, County Council Member Kathy Groninger and members of the media were given a tour of the newly remodeled communications center Tuesday following the regular county commissioners’ meeting…

AT&T invests nearly $40 million over three-year period to connect customers in McHenry County (IL)

AT&T is proud to connect customers across the country by continuing to grow America’s most reliable 5G network. From 2018-2020, we expanded coverage and improved connectivity in more communities by investing nearly $40 million in our wireless and wireline networks in McHenry County.

AT&T’s commitment to communities across the country continues and spans all layers of our network — from fiber to 5G to FirstNet. These investments are essential to connecting our customers with their family, friends and colleagues by increasing the network’s speed, reliability, coverage and overall performance…