by AllThingsECC.com | Dec 14, 2021 | Comm Center News
METHUEN — Calling 911 in a time of need can no doubt be a harrowing experience, but local residents now have the opportunity to connect with two new calm voices on the other end of the line with the addition of Yenifer Cabreja and Larissa Alves to the Police Department’s dispatch team.
Police Chief Scott McNamara said Cabreja and Alves both graduated from the state 911 Department’s Public Safety Communications Academy last month and began their roles with the department upon graduation. Both women are bilingual, and join a team of 10 dispatchers…
by AllThingsECC.com | Dec 14, 2021 | Comm Center News
BENTONVILLE — Benton County Central Communications lost electricity when a storm rolled through Friday night, a county official said Monday.
Robert McGowen, county administrator of public safety, said he was notified at 7:27 p.m. Friday that Central Communications, commonly called CenCom, was on generator power. Central Communications lost the generator power at 7:55 p.m., he said.
Central Communications is in the basement of the County Administration Building downtown…
by AllThingsECC.com | Dec 14, 2021 | Comm Center News
December 14, 2021
The director of Livingston County’s 911 Central Dispatch is leaving for greener pastures.
Chad Chewning tells WHMI that his last day on the job as the Director for Livingston County 911 Central Dispatch will be January 2nd, after which he will become the director of sales for Xybix 911 Furniture Company out of Colorado. That firm manufactures workstations and other equipment for dispatch centers across the country.
Chewning leaves the county’s 911 department after more than four years at the helm, although he has amassed over 34 years in the field. He began his dispatch career at Paramed/AMR Ambulance in 1985, advancing through the ranks to become the Communications Manager from 1988 until 2002. Chewning then went to the Oakland County Sheriff’s Office where he served as the Fire Dispatch Quality Assurance Supervisor and second in command. In 2014, he came to Livingston County as the Deputy Director of 911 Central Dispatch until he was promoted into his current role as Director in early 2017…
by ECC Editor | Dec 14, 2021 | Articles, Comm Center News
Each year for the past 12 years, the Federal Communications Commission has gathered information from states and territories about their 911 fee collection, distribution and general operations and put it together in a report to Congress. Usually published in early December of each year, the most recently available report from 2020 covers the calendar year from January 1- December 31 of 2019.
Here are some of the key statistics from the 2020 annual 911 fee report, related to 911 funding around the country for the more than 5,300 Public Safety Answering Points (PSAPs) who answered more than 211.1 million 911 calls during the course of 2019… READ MORE
by AllThingsECC.com | Dec 14, 2021 | Comm Center News
RICHMOND, Ky. (WTVQ/GOV.BESHEAR OFFICE) – Gov. Andy Beshear and the Kentucky Department of Criminal Justice Training (DOCJT) announced that 17 dispatchers from across the state graduated from the Public Safety Dispatch Academy,
They are ready to begin answering the call to provide assistance and assurance to both citizens and law enforcement officers of the commonwealth.
“Thank you for stepping up and joining Team Kentucky as part of a profession that is being asked to do more now than ever. Today you become, not only a dispatcher, but the essential lifeline for the entire commonwealth,” said Gov. Beshear…
by AllThingsECC.com | Dec 14, 2021 | Articles, Comm Center News
Published on December 10, 2021 by Hil Anderson
A coalition of utility groups and other current occupants of the 6 GHz communications band filed a pair of petitions with the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) this week to block an expected tidal wave of the new “6G” generation of consumer electronics from moving into their currently exclusive neighborhood.
The Edison Electric Institute and American Public Power Association were among a dozen associations that signed the official request for rulemaking submitted to the FCC along with an 11th-hour request for a stay of any pending approvals for a new generation of unlicensed 6G routers and other wireless devices that will generate a blizzard of electronic interference that will blind thousands of microwave links that currently operate on the 6 gigahertz (GHz) band and are used by utilities to monitor and maintain the electricity grid and other vital communications…
